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<p>Excellent series! In the example where a suspension part is clamped to the lathe faceplate, the extreme danger of the an off balance part should be pointed out with attention given to the starting <span class="caps">RPM</span> of the lathe.</p>
Posted on 2008-10-27 12:12:39 -0400 by Anonymous User
<p>Once again <span class="caps">VERY</span> impressive! I had never seen nor thought of using double sided tape for sheet metal turning. Keep up the good work.</p>
<p>Machine Shop 10 Lathe 3</p><p>1 Lathe Chuck 2 Lathe Arbors 3 Turning Between Centers 4 Face Plate Irregular Shapes 5 Face Plate Thin Materials</p>
<p>Great series. Thank you for making this available for all to learn from.</p>
Posted on 2008-12-09 12:16:11 -0500 by Anonymous
<p>As a novice to the metal shop, these videos are invaluable. Thank you very much for sharing this king of information in a video format. I have uploaded it onto my <span class="caps">PDA</span>/Mobile phone, and can now watch the videos wherever I might be.</p>
Posted on 2008-12-16 00:13:31 -0500 by Anonymous
<p>Good information for me as I started making prototypes with no machine education or experience. Now I’m going back and learning something about operating mills and lathes.<br /> I think I saw the videos are circa 1995. Do you now use cnc machines in your lab?</p>
Posted on 2008-12-23 12:32:54 -0500 by Anonymous
<p>Thank you so much for making this series of videos available to joe public. I’m very new to machining having recently bought an ex industrial Colchester lathe and a Bridgeport milling machine, I’ve learnt so much really useful info from your examples.</p>
Posted on 2009-01-29 06:06:36 -0500 by Anonymous
<p>great videos!…..as a beginning machinist, i learned alot. but….i can’t believe how cavalier thia guy is about putting his hands around running machinery. he strikes me as a math prof that got put in charge of the machine shop, and teaches thusly. i sure hope he doesn’t demonstrate this way to kids at college, cause’ those rich kids at <span class="caps">MIT</span> got daddys w/lawyers…i learned to keep my hands away from stuff in j.r. high metal shop, this guy’s probably too young to have had a j.r. high metal shop, so…a couple of times i almost couldn’t watch! i guess a video of this guy getting a finger whacked off w/a fly cutter wouldn’t have gone far….</p>
Posted on 2009-04-24 09:07:30 -0400 by davesupreme
<p>These are very clear, helpful videos. Thank you!</p>
Posted on 2009-06-05 12:41:33 -0400 by tsg
<p>This entire series is indeed outstanding and well worthwhile watching for anyone with any interest in machining. It was not intended to teach machine shop, but to provide a very basic undrestanding and to hopefully to keep the inexperienced from losing body parts when making one off units. I even learned some new tricks in this series, but still contend that the most useful tool I own in the one that sits on my shoulders. Fancy <span class="caps">CNC</span> tools are no no more of a substitute for older machines than calculators and computers are a substitute for understanding math. Keep up this outstanding endeavor.<br /> Al Sledge</p>
Posted on 2009-10-18 21:49:47 -0400 by al_sledge
<p>what type of double sided tape name brand did you used on the face plate?</p>
Posted on 2010-06-07 10:21:18 -0400 by welafong1
<p>great tool holder</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:11:25
<p>great idea. now i can make round shims!</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:28:19
<p>This is a great set of machining videos! My hat is off to Mr Erik Vaaler and everyone involved that helped make these videos.</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:29:02
<p>sarcasm?</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:11:23
<p>what the heck</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:03:20
<p>That looks sharp!!!</p>
<p>As he mentions in a moment, the tape is acting to drive the disc, the center provides the force required to keep the disc on the tape against the chuck. Of course if it let go it would be like a saw.</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:03:13
<p>You could also dry fit w/o tape, test run out with indicator, make witnessmarks, tape up and final adjust.</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:06:27
<p>They are both dead centres but a live one could be used on both ends.</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:18:08
<p>He’s actually using a dead center in both the headstock and tailstock. A dead center is inherently more accurate than a ball-bearing center.</p>
<p>A lot of useful info</p>
<p>Got good support on the back of the work… but the washer is a little small to give a lot of support… I guess it doesn’t need it ???</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:15:32
<p>Yep and I was just going to say something about the little dimple from the live center then he goes on to show how to prevent that too !!!</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:06:09
<p><span class="caps">VERY</span> <span class="caps">GOOD</span> holding tip!!</p>
<p>mark the centerpoint on the plate with a greasepencil or such, then take some scrap round stock like he was showing, drill a 1/8" hole through it, put a few very small pieces of double sided tape on the plate contact side of the donut. thread the donut on a bamboo skewer, align the skewer with the grease-spot on the large plate, then slide the donut on. now you have a centered piece of round that’s lightly taped onto the centerpoint of the plate, with a guidehole for the live center to grip into, and the plate you’re machining will have no permanent marks.</p>
<p>how would we center the stock without the live center?</p>
<p>I wholeheartedly agree with you on that, being self taught myself I try to read as many books on machining as i can find but I have learned a lot!!! in these videos. I still don’t quite get it on the dead centers… why put the dead one in the tailstock and the live one in the headstock why not reverse that???</p>
<p>End!</p>
Posted on 2010-09-09 04:36:05 -0400 by Anonymous 00:28:52
<p>For some reason this doesn’t look like an awesome idea.</p>
<p>I agree, what the heck, the oil on the steel prob wont hold the disk!</p>
Posted on 2010-09-14 23:31:26 -0400 by Anonymous 00:03:33
<p>ans: You’d have to start with a larger disc to ensure you could remove enough material to achieve a round outer edge. You can find the center offline on your layout bench.</p>
Posted on 2012-03-01 13:39:30 -0500 by Anonymous 00:06:40
