Thread: Metal lathes

Yes 3 jaw chucks are easy but with a 4 jaw you have a lot more that you can do. Joel (Benz here at SRP was a 3rd generation machinist and he turned me onto this guy's channel). He really blows me away.

If you skip in to 4:25 minutes you'll see him started to chuck the project up and then indicate it for machining.

Thanks for sharing, that is amazing and really hard to do!

My dad was a machinist but no where near Adam's level. I wish dad was still alive so we could watch the videos together, I think he'd really enjoy them.

Here's another project that took a lot of figuring to be able to to mount the project securely in the machine which this time is a shaper.



I've posted before about how I worked after school for an old machinist when I was 14 years old. He had a huge lathe that had a 36 inch swing. I saw him use it once and it scared the hell out of me. He used it to turn the pivots on a bulldozer's hydraulic rams down so we could install bushings made on one of the smaller lathes.

I can still him standing calmly on the platform while a cylinder was swinging.