Make Atlas Milling Attachment pt4 Tips
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This is a 5 part video series wherein I design & build a milling attachment for my ATLAS/CRAFTSMAN 12" lathe. 115 minutes in length. Watch all five parts & then subscribe. Then watch my 950 other shop videos.
Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Thank you Mr Peterson for sharing your wealth of experience and your precious time with the world.
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I always enjoy your projects and watching how you engineer by guess and by gosh. In 1972/73 I worked as a draftsman at Winnebago Industries. Our drafting department was on the floor above the R&D shop and those guys built every possible thing for the motor homes in the exact same manner. Often they'd send their notes up and we'd draw the part as if one of our engineers had designed it. In reality we knew it was the "guess and by gosh" crew down stairs. Great video, gotta go see episode 5 tomorrow, it is late!
Very interesting. I think maybe lots of companies use reverse engineering, but possibly would not admit it
Nothing like taking my morning coffee with a mrpete/tubalcain video!! See you next time!
true dat
yep but I'm changing it up, instead of having Chuck Conners in the background I have Richard Boone (have gun will travel).
Love both those shows!
I have an old Atlas 10" and I'm looking forward to your videos to learn how to use it well. Thanks Mrpete
I usually sit with my Saturday morning cup of Joe, and enjoy it with the informative and entertaining,The Mr. Pete Show! Once again another Home run Thanks Mr. Pete
thank you for the thousands of tips I have gleened. many times you need a small mill, especially for those of us who make small parts.
Nicely done Mr. Pete, I like the look of your version as it does look more compact. I'm sure this series will inspire others as those milling attachments are highly desired by hobbyists. They sure fetch a price on ebay.
I always like the, uh, rugged look of that SB compound as well; it show's Bubba's ingenuity in using his lathe as an anvil, a sledgehammer, and a ramming tool. He has made his lathe very versatile!
The attachment came out great. Very compact, I expect it to be better than the others. Enjoyed.
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Another well done video. Enjoyed all the details and the final product.
Splendid video Mr Pete! I am going to make one according to your specifications and am looking forward to using it. Thank you kindly for sharing this adventure.
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Fantastic Video Series !! 🤗
Thanks again! Your compact design is much better than the original! Since Columbus came over...... Love it!
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Great Saturday morning watching Mr. Pete..
wonderful series Mr.Pete. FYI Lactate makes another type of adhesive called Sleeve Retainer which might be more suited to this application (one of the adhesive engineers can comment on that). It is designed to bond cylinder sleeves to the block in BIG engines. Gunsmiths also use it to bond small caliber barrels to actions (.22). Thanks for the tutorial, well done as always
Quite a project with good results. Waiting for the test run.
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G'day Kevin here from Australia.
Thankyou once again for another great video.
Hi Mr Pete, another entertaining video thank you sir. I doubt I will be making one of these attachments as I have a Bridgeport clone but I do enjoy your commentary and look forward to your next video.
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Don't let people dissuade from being a horder, I hope some day, I can have a collection such as yours!
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What timing, I am in the process of making the milling attachment from the same mag. Article. Always great to see how the shop teacher does it . Thanks for all the great videos and the time to document them.
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as always you show us how to construct useful things. thank you.
Thanks Lyle for the edutainment!
Thank you, I like that word
Maybe it would be good to use a ball end mill to put 3 little pockets in the moveable vise jaw to locate it for the screws? Fine video Mrpete, thank you.
Looks like a fun project.
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Great video again! The dovetail plug is sticking out because it was pulled all the way out by the pins until it touched the compound.
Looking forward to seeing it put to use! Thanks, Mr. Pete! :-)
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I don't think you are a hoarder. Not in the least. You are a well supplied machine shop / teaching college. You don't have the time to go gallivanting all over creation to source parts to do your videos. If you did that, we wouldn't get as much excellent instruction as we do. So, if those other guys can't get permission to have a shop, they should just vicariously enjoy what you do, without casting dispersions. Thank you for having everything at hand so we can get this amazing instruction.
Thank you, you just justified all of my junk, LOL
You're no hoarder. Hoarders gather stuff in piles and let it all rot, they don't use any of it and they certainly don't throw anything away. You're constantly throwing stuff in the bin... :D
Exactly, Great comment!
teach is back cool
Another excellent job sir.. Thanks for sharing..
Really great project and very well done.
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Loving the knowledge... I'm looking forward toward next month. I get my Disability Check. Got it after 20 years as an "Operating Engineers, Local 3." I was a "Dust Control Engineer." I took the punishment of the Scraper Spread...the "Water Pull"....Water Wagon, Tanker...lotta punishment to keep my Brother's from eating dust!!!! Whole lotta pain. But, I got very interested in what I can create with my Old (WWII ) South Bend Heavy 10 Tool Room Lathe from Pearl Harbor Ship Yard. I want to make tools...I want to be a "Toolmaker." I could make what my friend's & family need. I have a new image & reputation today. It is an honor to be learning by, not only watching you...but to use the machine I got to make the tool's I can mount on my lathe. With my set income I just can't afford everything I need So, since I got a "Tool Room Lathe" & I can think & visualize the tools I need. Simply make use of what I got in front of me & do what I gotta do.
Mahalo for making these videos'... I'm sure I'm not the only one learning...I look @ your supportive audience... I've watched you before, back when my lathe wasn't running. Now I only lack 220v to my lathe. I made friend's & I'm bartering for material's right here in Hawi, HI 96719.
Aloha,
Chief #998
Sorry to hear about your disability. But you have found a wonderful hobby in machining. It’s fun to learn
@@mrpete222 we stop learning once we die...is what I believe & I''m not dead yet...plus I have a lathe. LOL!!!
Thankful to my cousin & her husband, Cousin "Catherine Inez" & her husband "Gary Inez" Regional Manager for "Young Brothers..." A Local Inter-Island shipping company...Gray's brother was going to rebuild it, but ran into too many things to do... I needed a lathe & tmy South Bend Heavy 10 Tool Room Lathe became mine. Kind of a "Dream Come True." Got a Lathe when I couldn't afforrd one, @ the very same time the fire to learn Machining burning in my Heart & Soul. Can't stop now.
Mr Pete, I have a question. Would it have been better to shim the dovetail in the compound before mounting the vise and drilling the hole? That way, the back face of the vise would be pulled against the compound by the pins. Right now, they are just sitting close together because the dovetail is bottomed out. Too late now but milling a few thousands off the end of the dovetail would do the same thing. Might increase rigidity. Great series as always.
Yes, that might have been a better solution
Thank you Mr. Pete
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With your version (angle plate, compound, shop-made vise), I wonder if rigidity could be increased with one or two machinist's jacks snugged up under the vise/compound assembly? I was also wondering if there's enough room to install gussets (or maybe even a solid prism) to further stiffen things up a bit?
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Awesome work and skills
He is awesome. My video narrations never seem to be as smooth as his.
great stuff,i prefer to use the term "collector" because i have been called a hoarder myself
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Great job
Hi mrpete/tubacain, I follow your videos and find them very interesting, but I would like to point out one thing I think could have been better in this video, and that is when tightened the two pins onto the dovetail as you did before positioning the vise on to the back of it.I think you should have fitted a temporary shim (same diameter as the dovetail) into the hole before fitting the dovetail in the hole so that when you tightened the two locking pins the dovetail would bottom out onto the shim, after pinning the vise to the other end of the dovetail then remove the shim, this would stop the dovetail from bottoming out when the two locking pins get tightened and the large flat base of the vise would then get pulled tight against the other flat surface as the pins were tightened, this would have reduced a lot of the vibration.
Good point
i would like you to do a series on the tee slot cross slide for the atlas lathe...with the casting from metal lathe accessories........... please please please............
For alignment parallel to the bed, would it be OK to drill and put a ball bearing detent for faster indexing?
nice video,thanks pete.
would be nice if you could do the compound too, that would be interesting.
One person's hoarder is an others, custodian. Don't worry about what those nattering naybobs say, Mr Pete.
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In a 1959 Sears tool catalog the Milling Attachment for the Atlas 6" lathe was $30.25...For the 12" lathe $36.75!
not anymore inflation has hit those items ...lol
Yes, that was a lot of money back then
I don't know about America, but here in the UK, the saying is "The proof of the pudding is in the eating".
BedsitBob it’s the same, we just shortened it up.
Having milled on my Atlas I find the cross slide dovetailing or lack of enough of it and the cross slide screw and nut play the weakest link.
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Serendipity all over the place!
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"Harry Walton - Home Workshop Editor of Popular Science for over 10 years ..." This homage was written in an ad from an issue June 1964.
Seems as though Harry was a real shop dog, did just about everything from log cabins to hot air engines:
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Them sure was the golden years, we had stalwarts such as Smokey Yunick for cars, R.J. DeCristoforo for the wood shop, guys like Harry, etc. Our ascent in the shop was unstoppable, with no limits in sight we could only go up from there, or so it seemed. Kinda sad but that now we are sometimes looking at the bones of that era and trying to figure out just "What The Hell Happened..."- Jake Holman's final words from "The Sand Pebbles", 1963.
YEA! The thumb nail grew out :)
Isn't that amazing how you can focus on that! LOL The sure sign he uses his hands. He is a national treasure for sure!
I would have thought you'd want the dovetail to have clearance in the hole, so that when it's clamped it seats on the vice. Now it's not only over-constrained, if you get a chip or something down in that hole it's not going to be very secure at all
I imagine there might be a milling in the near future involving that very thing.
THANK YOU...for sharing.
Old Harry Walton would be proud.
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Wonder where it is possible to buy that square key?
I thought you got that angle iron from Tubalcain (original) ?
Enjoyed
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Shop teacher knows Columbus
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13:15 The word is "serendipity"(?)
Only you can make a peace of aluminium look like a dummy 😂😂
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Watched this and then realized you used a mill to make it possible to mill on the lathe. There seems to be something wrong to this logic. 🤔
62 degrees maybee a burr
Could be