Another Machine Shop Video! (Patreon)

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2021-11-17 23:50:17

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2023-02

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Yeah, I know most of you would like to see another drawing video- and I am working on those. :) But I'm still primarily a machinist, and I know a few of you like the mechanical stuff too.

In this case, I had some pieces of heavy-wall pipe to bore out for a local client yesterday, and since I already had the camera and a tripod out, I whipped up a quick video.

One of these days, I'll get that whole "sound" thing figured out, too. :D

Part of the reason I wanted to do a video, is this machine has been a long-term project, one I dragged home back in 2013, and only just finished- finished this past January. Several of my readers have been following the saga since fairly early on, and I thought you might be interested to see it moving under its own power, as it were.

(And, it's worth noting, at this point videos like this are still very much 'practice', learning how to frame, shoot and edit to make a reasonably interesting video. Stick around, I'm hoping they'll get better. :D )

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1942 Springfield Machine Tool 16" Heavy Lathe

Had a small job to do on the big Springfield, so I thought I'd shoot a quick video. Some of you may have been following this rebuild on either the Tinker's Guild or on Practical Machinist, and might get a kick out of seeing and hearing it actually move. :) For those just tuning in, I got this monster back in late 2013, and the seller said it had only been outside- in Alaska- "about a year". :) I slowly rebuilt it over time, including sending the bed off for reginding (a fiasco that itself took just over two years) and finally in early 2021, had it up and running like new. Specs: 16" swing at the brochure, about 18.5" actual. 56" between centers, L1 spindle, 1-9/16" bore, 10HP/3Ph, 12 speeds, 20 to 900 RPM, plus the variable from the VFD. Leadscrew reverse, taper, automatic carriage oiling, 36 threads and feeds from 1-1/2 (!) to 80 TPI, all in about six thousand pounds of road-hugging wartime-iron weight. :)