Back in the 70's, I was at work and saw a shaving grab a guy like you said. It stripped him naked from the waist down in a matter of seconds before someone was able to hit the emergency stop. He was OK, but; damn lucky it wasn't a whole lot worse.
I saw another channel make a part to address the part breaking at the weld issue. They started with a 14" diameter 24" long steel bar, about a ton, made into a complex part that was about 100 pounds. I am guessing replacing the part when it breaks was expensive.
It's funny, but as the production numbers go up on a part, the bean counters want to shave every last penny. This is why for the longest time the GM companies glued the doors on their cars. It saved about 2 or 3 cents a car, and over millions of cars that adds up. But the right method is what is being used here, for the billet is the best.
Excellent work - the science of cutting technology is fascinating and that's why I really enjoy seeing machinists make big chips with good material removal. I'm so glad you left the bit in where the stringy shit wrapped the camera and threw it - showing just what can happen with that stuff and what to watch for. Great content, thank you. As always, blown away by the surface finish straight from the cut. That's the way it's done!
Whew, your right Josh, thanks for leaving that footage showing how quick accidents can happen. There's many cases where the operator was not as fortunate and are missing from fingers to entire limbs from the accident. Another cause is long sleeves and loose clothing, they can get caught as well and that machine, even a small drill press will always have more power and be quicker than the human body! I cringe every time I see stringy chips start to wind up. That shaft was a great project and your video was a great repair job of it. They could not buy a better replacement. Good work. Thanks for sharing.
I can agree on all points, except for the long sleeves. I often wear long sleeves in the winter. Just being cautious and aware of your surroundings are your most important safety appliances. Every safety apparatus designed can and will kill you just as fast as what they were designed to prevent if you are unaware of your surroundings and careless.
@@TopperMachineLLC Yes, the primary safety device is between your ears, applying a process called situational awareness. Many a fool who is thinking about Betty's bouncy birds, you know the little bird in the Paridae family, those lovely flocks of Tits, had ended up mangled by distraction.
There is a balance, this channel is more directed at those that have some experience and are for the most part in the business. Then there are some very good channels that do talk to the people at the beginner level, those ones are aimed at the hobby shop folks.
It amazes me how worn out a shaft can get and still do its job. Ive repaired dozens of shafts. All sizes. All purposes. Retired now though. That is a good demonstration shaft to show folks. Sixes and nines. Looking good.
Another excellent video! Back when I was running a lathe, I used to love watching the long stringy chips. Mesmerizing. Then once, they wound up like they did on you! Nothing got hurt, but I learned to pay attention to what I was doing. 😁
Came here for undisclosed Anchor Lube ™ product placement, and was not disappointed. It was touch and go there for a while, especially during the thread tapping. I thought he was gonna leave me hanging. But bro brought it back around for the keyway milling. Bravo.
Is that wheel for Vegetable and packing plant equipment? A couple of passes and the rust is all off and as good as new!. It's just not good for cleanliness and friendliness of the machine's sliding bearing surfaces. Nice finish! Sorry to see the insert break. EVERY time I have to hit an exact dimension, I overshoot the size and ruined the fit. HA! Our skin starts to get thin at my new senior citizen age. My tuff hands were strong and calloused but not as a almost 63-year-old, the skin is SOOO thin that a hard bump can skin the backs of my hands. The chips draw blood once in a while. I got to go and and turn out a bushing for a project I started yesterday now! Thanks, for the great videos!
Hi Josh - I reached a milestone today - watched the last of your videos after finding your site a couple of months aga - now have to wait for the next to come out and no more binge sessions - all good watches. from AU
Josh Great job 👍 Just a tip. In order to protect the ways on that Gorgeous Lathe cut some scraps of plywood to cover the ways while chucking, unchuckiing parts or changing chucks. Dinks are there forever
Nice job, Josh. I think, if you look in the Machining Fundamentals book for "interference fit", you'll find a picture of that spindle 😆. Thanks for showing us how it's done and have a good weekend. Cheers.
Thanks Josh for the video, and yes them stringy chips are bad news for sure they can get you before you know it, that was alot of turning down but great job 👍
Fun fact - that 3.937" diameter is 100mm. I only know this because my Hemi block cylinders are by default 3.917", which is 99.5mm and I had it over bored by 0.020" which made it 100mm.
@@ellieprice363 yeah it just bugged me one day why they used such an odd diameter for the cylinder bore and for kicks I converted it to metric and that is how I found out.
I’ve never had much luck using a CNMG for finishing, the string I make always jams between the tool and workpiece causing a skid mark on it, you seem to have no issue with it however. I’ve seen you finish with a C lots of times now. The temp issue with tapers, I recall I believe I’ve had heat in the live center causing tapers to. Until the center warmed up it would taper quite a bit. First cut would be straight (cold), then tapered, then straight again. All I could think was the bearings heating the live center causing it to distort one way more then the other until it all equalised.
I've had great luck with cnmg inserts on finishing. Biggest thing is taking enough DOC to make a more solid chip. Too light and it will get in behind and score the work. Thermal expansion is a major player in machining. Once you learn how to plan for it, it isn't really an issue. It takes a lot of time and practice to get there.
@@TopperMachineLLC I tried to keep a load cell in the circuit and monitor the increase of force, easy to do, that was one of the items we made back then. Noticed a sharp increase initially, adjusted and continued to monitor. Overnight jobs always started all over again since the system chilled and lost the expansion. WW2 machinery, overworked with poor maintenance, holding too tight a tolerance to ignore these little things.
I like and appreciate your videos so much. Thank you for sharing your projects and expertise. I would really be grateful for the feeds and speeds that you use as you're machining the parts. It would be a great help to me as I am trying to learn the tips and tricks of turning and milling different materials. Or maybe that's too much trouble?
Just me maybe, but there is something mesmerizing about watching blued chips breaking off. You got super lucky with that long spiral! It never tangled around the work piece. I was cringing the entire time it was forming. *** LOL...yup...made a string of metal that ate your camera! *** Probably people that don't machine stuff would never notice the flash of light on the facing operation on the second end. They have to see the work piece stopped to know if they got it faced off yet or not.
Great video! I am guessing that the saw cut may have work hardened the material at the edges of the cut. Seems like there was of lot of sparks generated when you were cleaning that are up.
Great video and a terrific service for your customer! I wonder if DJI would sponsor you; I'd never heard of them before but a camera that can survive being chip-whipped into a tool post is robust enough for my humble needs.
1) Don't use heat on rubber wheels like that, you run the risk of separating the glue from the rubber 2) use DISH SOAP AND WATER as a lubricant when pressing these, not grease. The soap will dry and be sticky and will help hold it on, grease won't and will let it work loose. We press pallet jack tires on several times a month and have no issues just using the soapy water for a lube. Nice machining work... good job
Q. How does the lathe ‘kick out’ when it encounters a jamb? Handy tool I just saw on another channel, swarf magnet. Seemed to consist of a hollow (maybe plastic) capped pipe with a mobile magnet inside. With magnet at bottom of pipe, insert into lathe bed (or wherever) and attract swarf. Take to waste bin, pull out magnet, swarf falls off. 👍 May be quite common but I had never seen one before. 👍
I wonder to see extremely differently shaped chips! Really good short ones AND also looooooong other chips. Depending from different cutting speeds and different indexable inserts?
Very interesting to hear that you have ditched the GoPro cameras. These newer manufacturers like DJI and Insta360 are certainly showing the older brands such as GoPro and Drift the way to go.
Shows how quickly things can go wrong with powerful spinning machinery, like those pto demonstrations for farmers where they fill overalls with hay and it makes contact with the pto, industrial equipment is no joke, even with emergency stops or foot breaks things happen so quickly you wouldn't be able to respond in time if you place yourself in dangerous positions.
I had to learn early how to deal with saw marks. Sometimes you don't have to do anything, sometimes it kicks your butt. This one just cost an insert, no big deal in the grand scheme of business. I always plan a full insert per job, usually never even use up one corner. I'm still doing good.
If you haven’t already seen it done, I thought I would pass along a tip on how to remove bulk material innovatively that's different from what you do in this video. I’ve watched videos of people overseas doing machine work, and one of the videos I watched had an interesting way of removing large amounts of material on the lathe. The machinist would use a cutoff tool instead of a normal insert to hog out the material. The machinist would have a part in his lathe similar to this video and plunge the tool like he was cutting the part off, only stopping at a depth a few millimeters larger than the needed diameter. Then, he would move the cutting tool and repeat the plunge. Using the cutoff tool greatly reduced the time to remove the bulk of the material. Next, the machinist would use the normal insert to bring the part to its proper dimension. I’m interested in hearing your thoughts about it.
There was a lady I’m going to say 15-20 years ago that had her hair in a ponytail,she bent over and the lathe grabbed her hair and scalped her. This happened in Barberton Ohio. I got to meet her about six months after she said it was so fast it didn’t hurt at first then after a few minutes the pain hit once at the hospital they cleaned up her scalp and stapled it back on.
@@TopperMachineLLC nope, whoosh thack, thack, thack... foot brake, check to see if I'm bleeding, ask a coworker to look at the areas I can't see. Go back to work, clean the floor later, and the chip pan, then check my pants. good to go! Edited for for clarity.
@CothranMike unfortunately I work alone most of the time. I have to wait to feel wetness in my boots. Either from the blood I couldn't see or poop. 🤣🤣🤣
Always remember that YOU are the most expensive machine in the shop. Be mentally prepared to sacrifice whatever machine or part you're working on to keep yourself in good shape.
I have a small bench top lathe and one of my major concerns was that you have to cross the arc of the chuck to switch it off in the case of stringy chips whipping around with the chuck. I made a foot stop switch for this very reason and use it every time to stop my lathe so that in the case of an emergency, it’s a natural reaction. Small hobby lathes should come with foot switches like the larger professional lathes do.
When that insert broke, you said the lathe autofeed kicked out "which is what it's supposed to do." This is very very curious! I've never heard of such a thing and would really love to know how this process works.
Has no one come up with a workable chip guard or pehaps a chip breaker which would project fore and aft of the tool to break stringy chips? Those strimgs coming off the twist drill give me the Cold Robbies, as Pogo Possum used to say.
you should cut that camera grab into a short and do a voice over of what happened and why chips like that are so dangerous. that feels like a viral short opportunity.
When you know you need to hog out a lot of material, and end up with a radius in a corner, why not use a circular insert to do all the cutting? Is it too much tool pressure per cut to be efficient?
I never considered that. I don't think I would have problems with tool pressure and rigidity. I think the insert would not handle it as well as the CNMG does.
Hi Josh, as always impressed with your work and I made a small donation to help replacing your camera gear :) Come on viewers, Josh can use a little help from us to make great videos about machining.
Hopefully the customer gets a bunch more shaft from you and spreads the word of your good service. 🙂
Back in the 70's, I was at work and saw a shaving grab a guy like you said. It stripped him naked from the waist down in a matter of seconds before someone was able to hit the emergency stop. He was OK, but; damn lucky it wasn't a whole lot worse.
Yep, you can't Dick around in a machine shop, that stuff will mess with your junk, or just turn you into junk.
damn!
Damn, that's insane
This reminds me of a Bugs Bunny episode where they put a whole giant Redwood tree in one side of a mill and comes out the other side as a toothpick. 😂
Been there, done that. lol
I saw another channel make a part to address the part breaking at the weld issue. They started with a 14" diameter 24" long steel bar, about a ton, made into a complex part that was about 100 pounds. I am guessing replacing the part when it breaks was expensive.
@@luck484 I have done a similar part several times over the years. Starting with a 1000 lb part and finishing about 70 lbs.
Bedankt
Thank you very much!
One of those jobs where you have 25 pounds of chips and 5 pound part. Fantastic work. That lathe is awesome.
Thanks 👍
It is much better to have 25 pounds of chips and a great part instead of a pound of chips and a part that needs to pound sand.
Nice video Josh. I hope you're proud of the work you do - people like you make the world go round.
I appreciate it!
A nice way to get repeat business by saving the client big money, also aa good way to produce videos for us to learn and enjoy
It's funny, but as the production numbers go up on a part, the bean counters want to shave every last penny. This is why for the longest time the GM companies glued the doors on their cars. It saved about 2 or 3 cents a car, and over millions of cars that adds up. But the right method is what is being used here, for the billet is the best.
Excellent work - the science of cutting technology is fascinating and that's why I really enjoy seeing machinists make big chips with good material removal. I'm so glad you left the bit in where the stringy shit wrapped the camera and threw it - showing just what can happen with that stuff and what to watch for. Great content, thank you. As always, blown away by the surface finish straight from the cut. That's the way it's done!
Thanks Stuart.
Good save for your customer, your upgrade is a good one I believe.
You betcha. 👍✌️
Whew, your right Josh, thanks for leaving that footage showing how quick accidents can happen. There's many cases where the operator was not as fortunate and are missing from fingers to entire limbs from the accident. Another cause is long sleeves and loose clothing, they can get caught as well and that machine, even a small drill press will always have more power and be quicker than the human body! I cringe every time I see stringy chips start to wind up. That shaft was a great project and your video was a great repair job of it. They could not buy a better replacement. Good work.
Thanks for sharing.
I can agree on all points, except for the long sleeves. I often wear long sleeves in the winter. Just being cautious and aware of your surroundings are your most important safety appliances. Every safety apparatus designed can and will kill you just as fast as what they were designed to prevent if you are unaware of your surroundings and careless.
@@TopperMachineLLC
Yes, the primary safety device is between your ears, applying a process called situational awareness. Many a fool who is thinking about Betty's bouncy birds, you know the little bird in the Paridae family, those lovely flocks of Tits, had ended up mangled by distraction.
I like your videos and I'm glad you don't talk like we are beginners.
There is a balance, this channel is more directed at those that have some experience and are for the most part in the business. Then there are some very good channels that do talk to the people at the beginner level, those ones are aimed at the hobby shop folks.
It amazes me how worn out a shaft can get and still do its job. Ive repaired dozens of shafts. All sizes. All purposes. Retired now though. That is a good demonstration shaft to show folks. Sixes and nines. Looking good.
NGL my butt was puckering up when you were filming that gigantic 15+ foot long murder noodle early on in the video. 😂
@@TheUncleRuckus murder noodle. Lol.
Great job Josh! I like that you're able to save your customers money!
Who else jumped (if just a bit) when the camera went flying! Nice work Mr. Topper sir.
Lol, I sure did. 🤣
Very positive comment for the algorithms
Good morning, thank you for the video.
Not only less expensive, but much better quality. Good job!!
Another excellent video! Back when I was running a lathe, I used to love watching the long stringy chips. Mesmerizing. Then once, they wound up like they did on you! Nothing got hurt, but I learned to pay attention to what I was doing. 😁
Enjoyed the machining, some good tips. Finished job looks great.
Nice work. Well thought out Mr Topper, sir!
Another awesome job, Thanks for taking me for a little weee ride, That was fun can we do it again please Mr Lion Lathe😂
From kiwi land.
you get some beautiful finishes!!!! impressive!
I would rather have beautiful finishes, than ugly ones. The customer notices the finish first.
Thank you Josh!
Thank you Josh. It was most enjoyable and educating.😀
Excellent vid josh......the customer saved a bunch of money by switching to topper.😊
Came here for undisclosed Anchor Lube ™ product placement, and was not disappointed.
It was touch and go there for a while, especially during the thread tapping. I thought he was gonna leave me hanging.
But bro brought it back around for the keyway milling. Bravo.
Great job
Is that wheel for Vegetable and packing plant equipment?
A couple of passes and the rust is all off and as good as new!. It's just not good for cleanliness and friendliness of the machine's sliding bearing surfaces.
Nice finish! Sorry to see the insert break.
EVERY time I have to hit an exact dimension, I overshoot the size and ruined the fit. HA!
Our skin starts to get thin at my new senior citizen age. My tuff hands were strong and calloused but not as a almost 63-year-old, the skin is SOOO thin that a hard bump can skin the backs of my hands. The chips draw blood once in a while.
I got to go and and turn out a bushing for a project I started yesterday now! Thanks, for the great videos!
I really hate that. The least abrasion or scrape means a week of wearing a bandage. I end up wearing long sleeve shirts so as not to scare people.
It's for a power plant. I hate rusty material, but without ample indoor storage, I am kind of stuck.
Hi Josh - I reached a milestone today - watched the last of your videos after finding your site a couple of months aga - now have to wait for the next to come out and no more binge sessions - all good watches. from AU
Josh
Great job 👍
Just a tip. In order to protect the ways on that Gorgeous Lathe cut some scraps of plywood to cover the ways while chucking, unchuckiing parts or changing chucks. Dinks are there forever
Nice job, Josh. I think, if you look in the Machining Fundamentals book for "interference fit", you'll find a picture of that spindle 😆. Thanks for showing us how it's done and have a good weekend. Cheers.
Lol, I was sur happy it went together well.
Thanks Josh for the video, and yes them stringy chips are bad news for sure they can get you before you know it, that was alot of turning down but great job 👍
It wasn't bad. I like jobs like this.
Fun fact - that 3.937" diameter is 100mm. I only know this because my Hemi block cylinders are by default 3.917", which is 99.5mm and I had it over bored by 0.020" which made it 100mm.
Wow you’re right. I never would have guessed that a metric dimension would be that close to Imperial. 1 15/16 is 1.9375 so 100mm is 0005 shy.
@@ellieprice363 yeah it just bugged me one day why they used such an odd diameter for the cylinder bore and for kicks I converted it to metric and that is how I found out.
Nice you were helping Kyle with his Lucas. -Doozer
We have talked at lengths about it. He will get that thing ripped into shape v
That couldn’t of turned out better good warning about them stringy turnings absolutely lethal can be very hard to prevent on finishing cuts 👍👍👍
I’ve never had much luck using a CNMG for finishing, the string I make always jams between the tool and workpiece causing a skid mark on it, you seem to have no issue with it however. I’ve seen you finish with a C lots of times now.
The temp issue with tapers, I recall I believe I’ve had heat in the live center causing tapers to. Until the center warmed up it would taper quite a bit. First cut would be straight (cold), then tapered, then straight again. All I could think was the bearings heating the live center causing it to distort one way more then the other until it all equalised.
I've had great luck with cnmg inserts on finishing. Biggest thing is taking enough DOC to make a more solid chip. Too light and it will get in behind and score the work.
Thermal expansion is a major player in machining. Once you learn how to plan for it, it isn't really an issue. It takes a lot of time and practice to get there.
@@TopperMachineLLC I tried to keep a load cell in the circuit and monitor the increase of force, easy to do, that was one of the items we made back then. Noticed a sharp increase initially, adjusted and continued to monitor. Overnight jobs always started all over again since the system chilled and lost the expansion. WW2 machinery, overworked with poor maintenance, holding too tight a tolerance to ignore these little things.
@@TopperMachineLLCcouldn't agree more Josh minimum DOC no smaller than TNR get on that chip breaker and get a good chip......the first time.
You just nailed it
Good video Josh, I really enjoy them.😀 Oh yeah, I love all the measurement numbers.
thank you
Another happy customer with the cost saving over buying a new part. Some of these parts have ridiculously high prices and can be made for way less.
I like and appreciate your videos so much. Thank you for sharing your projects and expertise. I would really be grateful for the feeds and speeds that you use as you're machining the parts. It would be a great help to me as I am trying to learn the tips and tricks of turning and milling different materials. Or maybe that's too much trouble?
I always tell the new guys that everything in the building will try to kill them at some point, they always think I'm exaggerating.
You couldn't be more right!!!
Good job
Just me maybe, but there is something mesmerizing about watching blued chips breaking off. You got super lucky with that long spiral! It never tangled around the work piece. I was cringing the entire time it was forming.
***
LOL...yup...made a string of metal that ate your camera!
***
Probably people that don't machine stuff would never notice the flash of light on the facing operation on the second end. They have to see the work piece stopped to know if they got it faced off yet or not.
Thanks for the video, I wish I would have watched my uncle more, and learned from him.
Beautiful work!!!
Great video! I am guessing that the saw cut may have work hardened the material at the edges of the cut. Seems like there was of lot of sparks generated when you were cleaning that are up.
Not work hardened, interrupted cut. Carbide doesn't like interrupted cuts.
Great video and a terrific service for your customer! I wonder if DJI would sponsor you; I'd never heard of them before but a camera that can survive being chip-whipped into a tool post is robust enough for my humble needs.
Lovely cleaning cut
Nice bit of heavy turning, chips make a good sound in the chip pan at 20 thou feed.
They sure sound heavy when they hit.
Great video, as always! Josh, I noticed Kyle Vanover gave you a nice shout out in the video he released today.
That turned out very nice 😊😊😊
1) Don't use heat on rubber wheels like that, you run the risk of separating the glue from the rubber 2) use DISH SOAP AND WATER as a lubricant when pressing these, not grease. The soap will dry and be sticky and will help hold it on, grease won't and will let it work loose.
We press pallet jack tires on several times a month and have no issues just using the soapy water for a lube.
Nice machining work... good job
Good job
Talk about hogging out some material, really need job. Appreciate you sharing your work with us.
Great work..!!
Thanks a lot!
Q. How does the lathe ‘kick out’ when it encounters a jamb?
Handy tool I just saw on another channel, swarf magnet.
Seemed to consist of a hollow (maybe plastic) capped pipe with a mobile magnet inside.
With magnet at bottom of pipe, insert into lathe bed (or wherever) and attract swarf.
Take to waste bin, pull out magnet, swarf falls off. 👍
May be quite common but I had never seen one before. 👍
yes it does. Chip hooks are the best tool I have found.
I wonder to see extremely differently shaped chips! Really good short ones AND also looooooong other chips. Depending from different cutting speeds and different indexable inserts?
Great video Josh, that's the kind of work I do, I never know what's coming next,lol 😂. Keeps it interesting, excellent job..
I could never do a factory chop job. I love the variety. Never a dull moment.
well done 💥
good day Josh...best wishes from Florida......PB
Thanks 👍
Very cool
Very interesting to hear that you have ditched the GoPro cameras. These newer manufacturers like DJI and Insta360 are certainly showing the older brands such as GoPro and Drift the way to go.
The DJI is far superior to the GoAmateur. I have had zero freeze ups or lost footage since using DJI.
Shows how quickly things can go wrong with powerful spinning machinery, like those pto demonstrations for farmers where they fill overalls with hay and it makes contact with the pto, industrial equipment is no joke, even with emergency stops or foot breaks things happen so quickly you wouldn't be able to respond in time if you place yourself in dangerous positions.
Yup, that's why I don't stand next to the chuck. Pay close attention to where I place myself in all my videos.
Or even foot BRAKES to keep from BREAKING things.
nice work
I was a little nervous when I'd seen that saw cut partway through. Been burned by broken teeth before. Glad it worked out. Great looking part.
I had to learn early how to deal with saw marks. Sometimes you don't have to do anything, sometimes it kicks your butt. This one just cost an insert, no big deal in the grand scheme of business. I always plan a full insert per job, usually never even use up one corner. I'm still doing good.
Good looking chips. Stringy chips can be dangerous.
If you haven’t already seen it done, I thought I would pass along a tip on how to remove bulk material innovatively that's different from what you do in this video. I’ve watched videos of people overseas doing machine work, and one of the videos I watched had an interesting way of removing large amounts of material on the lathe. The machinist would use a cutoff tool instead of a normal insert to hog out the material.
The machinist would have a part in his lathe similar to this video and plunge the tool like he was cutting the part off, only stopping at a depth a few millimeters larger than the needed diameter. Then, he would move the cutting tool and repeat the plunge. Using the cutoff tool greatly reduced the time to remove the bulk of the material. Next, the machinist would use the normal insert to bring the part to its proper dimension. I’m interested in hearing your thoughts about it.
Slower, by far. Total time to turn this shaft down to size was 20 minutes max.
There was a lady I’m going to say 15-20 years ago that had her hair in a ponytail,she bent over and the lathe grabbed her hair and scalped her. This happened in Barberton Ohio. I got to meet her about six months after she said it was so fast it didn’t hurt at first then after a few minutes the pain hit once at the hospital they cleaned up her scalp and stapled it back on.
Might the wheel turn with it being greased????? Good video.
NICE
That killer spaghetti will cut your fingers off in no time. Always have to be alert around machinery like this.
I've been bit once or twice by it. You learn real quick where not to be when doing these cuts.
It would be nice to have an ammeter on the lathe motor to see how hard you are pushing it in those heavy cuts.
Hardly using all 15 HP. Maybe 5-6 HP.
I have seen stringy chips clean an entire chip pan out of other stringy chips in less than 2 seconds
Me too. You never forget that sound.
@@TopperMachineLLC nope, whoosh thack, thack, thack... foot brake, check to see if I'm bleeding, ask a coworker to look at the areas I can't see. Go back to work, clean the floor later, and the chip pan, then check my pants. good to go!
Edited for for clarity.
@CothranMike unfortunately I work alone most of the time. I have to wait to feel wetness in my boots. Either from the blood I couldn't see or poop. 🤣🤣🤣
Always remember that YOU are the most expensive machine in the shop. Be mentally prepared to sacrifice whatever machine or part you're working on to keep yourself in good shape.
I have a small bench top lathe and one of my major concerns was that you have to cross the arc of the chuck to switch it off in the case of stringy chips whipping around with the chuck. I made a foot stop switch for this very reason and use it every time to stop my lathe so that in the case of an emergency, it’s a natural reaction. Small hobby lathes should come with foot switches like the larger professional lathes do.
Only mid grade lathes come with foot brakes. Big industrial lathes have built in braking with the clutches.
@@TopperMachineLLC keep up the great work and videos Josh. Enjoy watching them from New Zealand.
Saving the customer money
23:23 Dude! Ouch! 😂😂. But, it sure gave a tactile demonstration of shop risks.
Good
I have a Ford Service, Signs, Like on the wall behind you in this video. FORD # 1
When that insert broke, you said the lathe autofeed kicked out "which is what it's supposed to do." This is very very curious! I've never heard of such a thing and would really love to know how this process works.
Low end machines do not have this feature. Basically it senses excess torque and disengaged the feed.
Very nice work Josh. What coolant do you use? Thanks
TRIM E850
@@TopperMachineLLC Ok Thanks
9:30 Slinkyyyyy!
The coolant you're using looks like soluble oil?
The Action Pro 4 is so last week. You should have a promo Email for the Pro 5 by now 🤣It still does make sense to keep with the 4 if you are happy 😉
Haven't heard of it. Muat not be important enough to be told about it.
@@TopperMachineLLC You might score a deal on the 4 maybe if you keep an eye out 😃
Has no one come up with a workable chip guard or pehaps a chip breaker which would project fore and aft of the tool to break stringy chips? Those strimgs coming off the twist drill give me the Cold Robbies, as Pogo Possum used to say.
Spade drills break the chip. Finish turning is just its own animal, deeper cuts will break the chip.
I enjoyed the vid. What was the rpm when turning the large diameter? Did you increase the rpm when turning to the smaller diameters?
ran it all at 710 rpm
you should cut that camera grab into a short and do a voice over of what happened and why chips like that are so dangerous. that feels like a viral short opportunity.
What grade of file are you using for finishing the chamfers? Something like a flat smooth?
.100 at 20.. dam I need to try this at work
Ouch that spot
What grade steel did you use here? 1045?
When you know you need to hog out a lot of material, and end up with a radius in a corner, why not use a circular insert to do all the cutting? Is it too much tool pressure per cut to be efficient?
I never considered that. I don't think I would have problems with tool pressure and rigidity. I think the insert would not handle it as well as the CNMG does.
Do you recycle the metal chips? Seems like a lot. I have never been around a machine shop before.
I often watch videos while the TV is on so I need closed captioning. No CC no watch!
make it out of 2 1/2" stock ,and a donut to weld on at the 2 1/2" dim to move the heat zone away from the 1 1/2' dim
This took less time.
Hi Josh, as always impressed with your work and I made a small donation to help replacing your camera gear :)
Come on viewers, Josh can use a little help from us to make great videos about machining.
Thank you very much. It is greatly appreciated.
What steel are you turning the spindle from?
covered in the video.
Did I just witness the biggest blooperS😅 in TOPPER 😂history?
Lol, no. The biggest was when i lost the camera in the sawmill sawdust auger. All I could do was stand there an watch.
@@TopperMachineLLCI thought you found it?
Need to make a CAD cover (Cardboard Aided Design) to keep the splatter of coolant down. At least will get most of it back in the tray to reuse.
I have done that, but it's just better to do it without coolant and cool before finishing. Carbide can take the heat.
I just stole that term from you. Thanks!