Loving this series, as I plan to work on my Monarch over the winter. It needs a lot of cleaning/repainting. I kept waiting for you to say "LOOK, GODZILLA!" with the dubbing :)
The quality and robustness of that lathe is merely astonishing. What a machine! Superb restoration. Keith, you look gentlemanly with your beard, now you can pose as a Country Squire.
If 2016 was the year of the shop, will 2017 be the year of the machines? I hope so. Really enjoy watching you restore and use these great tools. Best wishes from Cornwall, UK.
Mr. Rucker, I was taught by Nye Lubricant Inc. years ago that there is a difference between oil and grease. They told me oil should be used only when reapplication (oil plug) or a reservoir is used. The use of grease should be used if long term lubrication is required, and reapplication is doubtful in the future. They also cautioned us on mixing different types of lubricants, as lubricants are made with different bases such as clay, polyurea, ect. Nye Lubricants basically make synthetic oils and grease, and we used it mostly in equipment that need to be/stay lubricated for an extended period of time. Like your projects and thanks for posting.
Being a Ham radio operator I understand the problems you can have with those fine mic wires. When you lifted the tail stock piece it most likely separated the wires from the element. I figure that is a sealed up mic assembly so get out the old spare. I didn't mind the voice over as a lot of the heavy breathing when you lifted things was eliminated (just kidding). Great video and thanks again, Greg.
Good job, Keith ! I really like your videos, and you are a real gentleman. I have a 17" Leblond heavy duty lathe that I was going to restore but I am getting to old to dive into this.project. The old workhorse was made in 1913, and I used to use it where I worked. It was retired in 1995, and now it resides in my shop. I call it Grandpa. I guess it is a term of endearment! I guess I'll sell it and let some young buck tackle it!
Dear keith, hi from cyprus. just a few words to you. have seen all your videos and just love them. keep up all the good work that you are doing lots of love jimmy
Hello from Anchorage,Alaska Keith! I am a fairly new subscriber and have really enjoyed watching all the videos that you have put up so far. Keep up the good work!
Hopefully you are able to repair your mike as one of the things I love about your channel is your crystal clear audio. Edited comment as you answered my question in a different comment.
Seeing a skilled machinist use a shop crane (aka engine hoist) to assemble and mount machinery too heavy to self lift is encouraging for a budding machinist after a 55 year hiatus since shop class. My machines are a lot smaller but my use of the hoist is just as critical, we do think quite alike.
What is it that draws us back to this channel over and over? I think it's our desire for the real and the genuine in life. We are bombarded constantly with the unreal; the false, the phony, the deceptive, the misleading, all day long, and this channel feels like a cool oasis.
I don't know how he finds the time and energy to do all that he does: building a new machine shop, restoring equipment, recording and editing videos, working at his job, and tending his family and home.
If you have a long enough cord or can get an extension you can strap the lav microphone pack to your ankle and run the cord up your jeans to the lapel. It really frees you up if you need to move around and lift things.
Hi Keith ! Really nice paint job - I'm gonna use the exact same method when I start painting ... no need for primer or bondo, I think - it looks very nice without !
Fine job and the voiceover worked really well. Be glad you're in Georgia because if you'd been in L.A. and spread the oil out with your hands you'd be dead from cancer years ago! I'd have died from oil poisioning when I was a baby!
I count my blessings every day that I do not live in California. It is one of the most beautiful states in the country and with some of the best weather in the world. But let's just say that a large portion of the people who live there see the world through a very different lens than I do. I actually did live in California for a short period of time when I was a kid - thank goodness we got out.....
Excellent tutorial. You can’t over-emphasize the importance of using lubrication during reassembly. In engine rebuilding it is recommended to use assembly lubes with Zinc dithiophosphate (ZDP). Even though the shop machinery will not deal with the temperatures and pressures of an internal combustion engine, the dangers of “dry starting” machined surfaces is real. It takes a long time for operational lubrication to reach some internal parts. Don’t risk it!
I think the voice over worked real well to get over the microphone breakdown. - I do hope that you didn't have to go over recording new film too much! It looks really smart now and I look forward to you being able to produce some chips from this lathe.
This mite have been said before but, A Star is born, a new career is found as the newest voice over actor, So Keith no reason to worry about the audio we all like your videos so all's good here
I remember you made a video (some time back) showing a machinist tool box that had a comb in it. You remarked you wouldn't be needing that anytime soon. However, another week and you will be needing to comb that beard!
Great job of restoration and fun to follow. It appears you may have sheared off the retainer key tab with your improvised "socket" but should still be secure enough if you do not apply "Abom" torque to the crank. As Sears closes their stores, watch for a closeout on missing sockets. Your beard looks very appropriate and now you can say you are "travelling in magneto" but please do not braid it and add beads as the chin area grows out. Having a long chin beard tangled in a lathe project could leave you "standing there with a long face".
Great job on the voiceover, Keith. That's hard to do for video professionals. Very little difference in your voice pitch or "cadence" between live and voiceover. Nice to see the LeBlond coming along, too. Wish I could come down and help. Just too far away. Thanks, John
Hi Keith, you almost got it! Quick question: at the opposite end of the morse taper don't you must have a piece or something to pop out the tool you have installed once you reach the end of the travel on the tale stock spindle? Or in the Leblond you have to knock the tool out with some long bar and a hammer? In my old Gläss lathe, when you reach the end of the travel the tool automatically pops out, cause normally es hard to remove a mandrel or a live center by hand, or if your morse cones are in good shape, its impossible by hand. Cheers!
I am glad I found your video. I have the same LeBlond , I acquired it when I bought an automotive shop. It works well, but would you mind letting me know what arbor I need to put a drill chuck on this machine. Thanks
Looks like some hair moved from your head to your face? Looking good sir, I will be doing that myself soon... Thanks for the video.... good to see the tailstock finished up.
You made the reassembly look easy; probably, disassembly was much more problematic....! (Almost) ready to use, or are there electrical and calibration stages/renewals remaining...???
Could you expand on what you use for your painting: type of paint, primer, process, etc. Pretty clear on how you clean things (i.e. Citris Strip and elbow grease) but all details would be greatly appreciated! Paint looks great.
All of that information is in some of the earlier videos in this series. I don't remember which one but the first one that I started painting in I went over that.
I heard the mic wire separate. Nice recovery! Have a look at Adam Savage's One Day Bilds - Vsauce glasses hack video. Not sure if I should put the link here. It's a cool hack and keeps the microphone cables (mostly) out of harms way
Hi Kieth - really looking great. Ive had a question nagging me for a while. When you rebuild these old lathes do you ever run into rotating parts that are warn out or have slop beyond acceptable tolerance because of long periods of use? If so how do you compensate or correct for it so that the machine is more back like it was when it was new?
Most rotating parts that have critical wear will happen on bearing points. Very often you can adjust for this by replacing the bearings or making a new sleeve bearing depending on the situation. Every case is different but very often you can work around it.
Keith, keep the great content coming my man! On a related note, I've got a 1941 Type B lathe from Reed-Prentice that I'm trying to restore, and I'm hoping to get some help from you or the comments here. The tailstock spindle won't budge and is disengaged from the handwheel screw. Any suggestions as to removing the spindle without destroying the whole tailstock?
Oil hole. The cap is made of steel, but brass would have looked great. Considering this machine was made in 1941 - right before the US entered the war but while we were building up, brass may have already been in short supply.
Is there any part of the machine that seems to work better now that it's been pulled apart, cleaned, oiled, painted, and rebuilt? Come to think of it, is there any part that DOESN'T work properly now that it's been rebuilt?
The only part that is messed up is the actual mic - the wire has a short in it. The rest of the unit is just fine. I have ordered a new microphone.....
listening to the voice over was kind of like watching an old Godzilla movie where the English voice over didn't match the Japanese lip movements. good video.
Keith, why don't you get more of the rust off of the unpainted parts, especially the ways, and sliding parts? I would think the oil/oxide mixture would be abrasive.
Could you or anyone discuss the advantages/disadvantages of this style (side angle crank) of tailstock vs the kind where the crank wheel is in the end? I hope there is more to it than some like Fords and some like Chevys. Some people have commented on the removal of the center, chuck or morse taper. Is there a way to remove them without a long bar having to be inserted into the end of the shaft and risking sending the center, etc. into the chip pan after a hard smack from a hammer?
The big advantage is that with the angle version you can have a hole all the way through the quill which has some advantages. Honestly, I don't think it really matters that much.
Not only are you a master machinist, you are also an accomplished narrator; describing in perfect detail your progress after the fact.
Loving this series, as I plan to work on my Monarch over the winter. It needs a lot of cleaning/repainting. I kept waiting for you to say "LOOK, GODZILLA!" with the dubbing :)
What a beautiful piece of work that tailstock is inside!
Let it grow Mr. Keith! Great video as well.
The quality and robustness of that lathe is merely astonishing. What a machine! Superb restoration.
Keith, you look gentlemanly with your beard, now you can pose as a Country Squire.
Thanks for this video Keith, and you did well with the voiceover.
If 2016 was the year of the shop, will 2017 be the year of the machines? I hope so. Really enjoy watching you restore and use these great tools. Best wishes from Cornwall, UK.
That would be nice!
Mr. Rucker, I was taught by Nye Lubricant Inc. years ago that there is a difference between oil and grease. They told me oil should be used only when reapplication (oil plug) or a reservoir is used. The use of grease should be used if long term lubrication is required, and reapplication is doubtful in the future. They also cautioned us on mixing different types of lubricants, as lubricants are made with different bases such as clay, polyurea, ect. Nye Lubricants basically make synthetic oils and grease, and we used it mostly in equipment that need to be/stay lubricated for an extended period of time. Like your projects and thanks for posting.
No worries about the voice-over. Stuff happens.
Thanks for posting this series, I've been enjoying it immensely. :)
The voiceover was just fine. Thanks for another great video
Being a Ham radio operator I understand the problems you can have with those fine mic wires. When you lifted the tail stock piece it most likely separated the wires from the element. I figure that is a sealed up mic assembly so get out the old spare. I didn't mind the voice over as a lot of the heavy breathing when you lifted things was eliminated (just kidding). Great video and thanks again, Greg.
Being from Minnesota, I enjoy the way you say oil. Keep it up Keith!
Nothing better then building something like this and then getting the first use and feeling the smoothness.. great feelimg
Hey Keith, Looks like a brand new machine. Thanks for sharing the fun you're having. Can't wait to see you make some chips!
Real masterpiece! Cant wait for the monarch lathe restoration!
Good job, Keith ! I really like your videos, and you are a real gentleman. I have a 17" Leblond heavy duty lathe that I was going to restore but I am getting to old to dive into this.project. The old workhorse was made in 1913, and I used to use it where I worked. It was retired in 1995, and now it resides in my shop. I call it Grandpa. I guess it is a term of endearment! I guess I'll sell it and let some young buck tackle it!
Beautiful video, Keith.
It's fun to see how the lathe slowly shines again in the new robe (freshly painted) and assembled.
Another good video, thank you Keith
Thanks for the update Keith the rack and pinion must give quite a lot more travel
Thanks for doing the voice over Keith! Great video.
hello keith things are coming along nicely
As always you did a great job even through the audio problems. I hope you can find and fix it up soon without a lot of expanse. thank you for sharing.
I like the handle and wheel details. Black with the bare steel is a great contrast.
Lol, the voiceover has the effect of making it watch like a badly dubbed foreign movie.
Thanks Keith. Very interesting videos, I'm learning a lot.
Dear keith, hi from cyprus. just a few words to you. have seen all your videos and just love them. keep up all the good work that you are doing lots of love jimmy
Hello from Anchorage,Alaska Keith! I am a fairly new subscriber and have really enjoyed watching all the videos that you have put up so far. Keep up the good work!
Looking better each video!
You're so busy you don't have time to shave anymore. Thanks for the vids Keith.
Thanks Keith, can't wait to see the fire up!
I continue to be impressed at how well built this lathe is. Nice restoration.
Excellent job Keith!
Great save to an Awesome vid with the voice over Keith , Thumbs up ! Thanks man..
Hopefully you are able to repair your mike as one of the things I love about your channel is your crystal clear audio. Edited comment as you answered my question in a different comment.
Hurrah, more on the LaBlond!
Seeing a skilled machinist use a shop crane (aka engine hoist) to assemble and mount machinery too heavy to self lift is encouraging for a budding machinist after a 55 year hiatus since shop class. My machines are a lot smaller but my use of the hoist is just as critical, we do think quite alike.
the lathe is looking great Keith!
I am really liking the quill on that tailstock, you could make a longer one if you ever needed to easily enough.
What is it that draws us back to this channel over and over?
I think it's our desire for the real and the genuine in life. We are bombarded constantly with the unreal; the false, the phony, the deceptive, the misleading, all day long, and this channel feels like a cool oasis.
Looking good..... Looking good!
Good topic, and hope you do another demonstrating your procedure and method for calibrating elevation and side-to-side location of the tail-stock.
Now I know how my tailstock goes together. 8-) Thanks, Keith, and I too am liking the beard.
Good job on the voice over. Great job on the lathe. Also your shop is looking very nice.
Good looking lathe Keith. Hope you give us good demonstration when it is completed.
a fine restoration, good job
Good work Keith. I like the voice over
Nice job and thanks for sharing.
Great job with the voice over!!
I don't know how he finds the time and energy to do all that he does: building a new machine shop, restoring equipment, recording and editing videos, working at his job, and tending his family and home.
THANK YOU...for sharing.
If you have a long enough cord or can get an extension you can strap the lav microphone pack to your ankle and run the cord up your jeans to the lapel. It really frees you up if you need to move around and lift things.
Thank you for all videos Mr Rucker There are fine to look at when its -32 degr C outsides.Regards from Sweden.
Happy new year.
Well Done Keith! Lloyd - DigiTek
Thanks for the video Keith. Looks good. Sorry about the mic problem. The voice over went well.
Hi Keith !
Really nice paint job - I'm gonna use the exact same method when I start painting ... no need for primer or bondo, I think - it looks very nice without !
прекрасный станок, очаровательная задняя бабка и симпатичная масленка!
Fine job and the voiceover worked really well. Be glad you're in Georgia because if you'd been in L.A. and spread the oil out with your hands you'd be dead from cancer years ago! I'd have died from oil poisioning when I was a baby!
I count my blessings every day that I do not live in California. It is one of the most beautiful states in the country and with some of the best weather in the world. But let's just say that a large portion of the people who live there see the world through a very different lens than I do. I actually did live in California for a short period of time when I was a kid - thank goodness we got out.....
Keith Rucker - VintageMachinery.org You make a fine Gawgah boy. The past is long gone where it needs to be.
Joe-jaw?
OBviously you don't live in the South. Georgia.
Hahaha...funny man.
Great video. Thank you.
good or better than new great job kieth well done sir
That darn microphone! Great video Keith!
Looks great!!
Excellent tutorial. You can’t over-emphasize the importance of using lubrication during reassembly. In engine rebuilding it is
recommended to use assembly lubes with Zinc dithiophosphate (ZDP). Even though the shop machinery will not deal with the temperatures and pressures of an internal combustion engine, the dangers of “dry starting” machined surfaces is real. It takes a long time for operational lubrication to reach some internal parts. Don’t risk it!
Looks great Keith! Waiting to see it make some chips! Happy New Year!
I think the voice over worked real well to get over the microphone breakdown. - I do hope that you didn't have to go over recording new film too much!
It looks really smart now and I look forward to you being able to produce some chips from this lathe.
Thank you!
This mite have been said before but, A Star is born, a new career is found as the newest voice over actor, So Keith no reason to worry about the audio we all like your videos so all's good here
I remember you made a video (some time back) showing a machinist tool box that had a comb in it. You remarked you wouldn't be needing that anytime soon. However, another week and you will be needing to comb that beard!
LOL
Nice Christmas Beard, Keith!
looking good
Hi Keith, lathe (and beard) looking good! I can see you competing with Keith Fenner for the best braided beard award at the 2017 Bash😂😂😂😂😂.
Great job of restoration and fun to follow. It appears you may have sheared off the retainer key tab with your improvised "socket" but should still be secure enough if you do not apply "Abom" torque to the crank. As Sears closes their stores, watch for a closeout on missing sockets.
Your beard looks very appropriate and now you can say you are "travelling in magneto" but please do not braid it and add beads as the chin area grows out. Having a long chin beard tangled in a lathe project could leave you "standing there with a long face".
One of the tabs was already broken off before I ever started on the lathe.
Great job on the voiceover, Keith.
That's hard to do for video professionals. Very little difference in your voice pitch or "cadence" between live and voiceover.
Nice to see the LeBlond coming along, too.
Wish I could come down and help. Just too far away.
Thanks,
John
Hi Keith, you almost got it! Quick question: at the opposite end of the morse taper don't you must have a piece or something to pop out the tool you have installed once you reach the end of the travel on the tale stock spindle? Or in the Leblond you have to knock the tool out with some long bar and a hammer? In my old Gläss lathe, when you reach the end of the travel the tool automatically pops out, cause normally es hard to remove a mandrel or a live center by hand, or if your morse cones are in good shape, its impossible by hand. Cheers!
I am glad I found your video. I have the same LeBlond , I acquired it when I bought an automotive shop. It works well, but would you mind letting me know what arbor I need to put a drill chuck on this machine. Thanks
Hey Keith! The beard suits you, keep it a while :)
Watch out Keith Fenner!
Good video! May I suggest that you relocate the Flag so that oil will not be flung on it?
I already have plans to do this. Place is picked out, just have not done it yet.
Very good
Looks like some hair moved from your head to your face? Looking good sir, I will be doing that myself soon... Thanks for the video.... good to see the tailstock finished up.
migrates south during winter i imagine
Hair is like a weed, where ever it lands it takes root. That's how it ends up in your ears.
How do you remove the chuck or centers on that type of tail-stock? is their a tool/punch that you push through the end to remove them?
The spindle is hollow, you just knock the chuck out from the end.
ok Thank You Thought there was a more elegant way!
You made the reassembly look easy; probably, disassembly was much more problematic....! (Almost) ready to use, or are there electrical and calibration stages/renewals remaining...???
Could you expand on what you use for your painting: type of paint, primer, process, etc. Pretty clear on how you clean things (i.e. Citris Strip and elbow grease) but all details would be greatly appreciated! Paint looks great.
All of that information is in some of the earlier videos in this series. I don't remember which one but the first one that I started painting in I went over that.
Thanks - I went back and looked - it was Episode 4. Answered my questions.
I heard the mic wire separate. Nice recovery!
Have a look at Adam Savage's One Day Bilds - Vsauce glasses hack video. Not sure if I should put the link here.
It's a cool hack and keeps the microphone cables (mostly) out of harms way
Hi Kieth - really looking great. Ive had a question nagging me for a while. When you rebuild these old lathes do you ever run into rotating parts that are warn out or have slop beyond acceptable tolerance because of long periods of use? If so how do you compensate or correct for it so that the machine is more back like it was when it was new?
Most rotating parts that have critical wear will happen on bearing points. Very often you can adjust for this by replacing the bearings or making a new sleeve bearing depending on the situation. Every case is different but very often you can work around it.
nice job.
Keith if you wouldn't mind could you send me a link to the oil you have in the brass oiler. Thanks!
Keith, keep the great content coming my man!
On a related note, I've got a 1941 Type B lathe from Reed-Prentice that I'm trying to restore, and I'm hoping to get some help from you or the comments here. The tailstock spindle won't budge and is disengaged from the handwheel screw. Any suggestions as to removing the spindle without destroying the whole tailstock?
that is an incredibly heavy duty tailstock for a 12 " lathe.
Nice job Keith. What color/paint are you using on the lathe? I am doing the same thing to my Clausing/Colchester lathe and really like that color.
It is a machinery gray color that I got in an oil based enamel from Sherwin Williams.
Thanks
Is there any wear on the ways on the bottom of the tail stock ?realy enjoy your videos
Nothing noticeable.
between the two locking bolts there is something that lines up with the oil hole for the adjustment shaft. is it an oil hole cap? is it made of brass?
Oil hole. The cap is made of steel, but brass would have looked great. Considering this machine was made in 1941 - right before the US entered the war but while we were building up, brass may have already been in short supply.
What kind of lighting do you have in your shop?
Is there any part of the machine that seems to work better now that it's been pulled apart, cleaned, oiled, painted, and rebuilt? Come to think of it, is there any part that DOESN'T work properly now that it's been rebuilt?
The voice over was actually very good. Are you going to put the mic in the press like Fenner did? The Lathe is looking great.
The only part that is messed up is the actual mic - the wire has a short in it. The rest of the unit is just fine. I have ordered a new microphone.....
listening to the voice over was kind of like watching an old Godzilla movie where the English voice over didn't match the Japanese lip movements. good video.
Keith, why don't you get more of the rust off of the unpainted parts, especially the ways, and sliding parts? I would think the oil/oxide mixture would be abrasive.
Could you or anyone discuss the advantages/disadvantages of this style (side angle crank) of tailstock vs the kind where the crank wheel is in the end? I hope there is more to it than some like Fords and some like Chevys. Some people have commented on the removal of the center, chuck or morse taper. Is there a way to remove them without a long bar having to be inserted into the end of the shaft and risking sending the center, etc. into the chip pan after a hard smack from a hammer?
The big advantage is that with the angle version you can have a hole all the way through the quill which has some advantages. Honestly, I don't think it really matters that much.
С рождеством !! Борода Вам не сильно идет )
I would have assembled it on the machine- easier on the back. Also the machined and tapered side of the spanner nut should go against the lock tab.
Very nice! By the way, I see your duplex outlets are upside down. :)
Making chips in no time!
I’d have thought you’d have built that up on the machine