Above 1200 Sq/FT T-Handles Workshop (The final destination??)

[T-handle]

Nice tour videos.

Thanks 250

 

[don long]

"T"
I just finished watching your collection of videos and must say I've never seen a shop that I've been more impressed with. You have done an amazing job of fitting all that you have in a compact space. I would love to work in a space like yours but I'm not disciplined enough to keep it looking like that.

 

[Matias]

Nice work on the new video! The welding area is great! Were the welding rods in plastic drainage piping with a cover with a small knob?

 

[T-handle]

"T"
I just finished watching your collection of videos and must say I've never seen a shop that I've been more impressed with. You have done an amazing job of fitting all that you have in a compact space. I would love to work in a space like yours but I'm not disciplined enough to keep it looking like that.

Thanks Don!

Makes me humble to hear this from the King of all garages. I have been busy with other stuff but I'm starting my machine area soon. I keep you guys updated

Nice work on the new video! The welding area is great! Were the welding rods in plastic drainage piping with a cover with a small knob?

Thanks Matias!

Yes I made some containers for the tig wires and welding rods. There's more pics from the process in page 7 post #129

 

[Matias]

Yes I made some containers for the tig wires and welding rods. There's more pics from the process in page 7 post #129

Thanks! Don't know yet if I'll start a habit on that tobacco. I'll have to figure out something else.

 

[T-handle]

Thanks! Don't know yet if I'll start a habit on that tobacco. I'll have to figure out something else.

Yeah no tobacco addiction for this things

You can buy caps for 75mm od but the id is tricky to find. But if you change your tube to 50mm there's more options for od and id

 

[bdbecker]

Outstanding work Tapio!

I'm not sure how I missed this thread, but I'm glad to be caught up after spending the last week or so reading through it. I also subscribed to your YouTube channel - looking forward to a rainy day so I can clean up my shop and watch your videos.

 

[T-handle]

Outstanding work Tapio!

I'm not sure how I missed this thread, but I'm glad to be caught up after spending the last week or so reading through it. I also subscribed to your YouTube channel - looking forward to a rainy day so I can clean up my shop and watch your videos.

Thanks for stopping by bdbecker

I have been uploading new videos to my channel and re-editing some old ones. It takes a lot of time to do a three minute video
But new videos are coming every Friday. Go check it out if nothing better to do T-Handle Youtube channel

I also made a Instagram account and uploaded some old pics. I'm going to update that time to times too.

Have a great weekend everybody

 

[dagofast]

I just read the entire thread. T-handle, your shop is fantastic. Your attention to detail and craftsmanship is amazing.

 

[T-handle]

I just read the entire thread. T-handle, your shop is fantastic. Your attention to detail and craftsmanship is amazing.

Thanks for stopping by dagofast



Hi guys! I've been busy with summer stuff. The weather has been super nice so not much workshop time for me.

I've been in the workshop mainly evenings and at night. My summer insomnia is bad when the sun is up almost 24/7. I've been editing some new vids and I've slowly got the machining area started.

One main reason for not posting is that I had to find a decent photo hosting site. Tomorrow is my anniversary at the Garage journal. One year and thousand pictures shared So my GJ photo album is full.

I went with the Smugmug 59$ a year, is that bad? If you guys have some free options let me know. And if you cant see the pictures it's probably my fault I have to learn how to share pictures from the Smugmug site.

I've been doing yard work and cleaning, The pollen season is finally over and the mess is huge every year. There's no point to wash anything before it's over. I washed the terrace with pressure washer and you can really see the difference.
Also some pretty cool sunsets almost every night. The summer is short in Finland but damn it's nice to see some colors

Machining area

I started the area by emptying it from stuff. I made a plan to fit my machines to the area so that I can work loosely. The area is 3x5 meters so not much room to work with. Some machine tetris and I got it figured out pretty good. I marked the machines on the floor with masking tape to see what works and what doesn't.

I have some room to expand the area both ways but not much. I had a couple of sheets to cover the partition wall I made earlier.

Then it was time to wash the windows. I have triple glazing in my workshop too so there's a lot to wash. It was a second time I cleaned these windows in a ten years after I build this workshop

I re-did the molding for the windows. Looks much better and modern now.

I needed more light to the area. I have some machine lights on my machines but some additional light is always good doing precision work. I think it's a safety feature too.
I was thinking how to expand my airline so that every machine has own air outlet. I combined these two and did a dropped rail system for airline and lights. I'm going to run the power gables for the machines inside the rail too.

I saved these rails from the recycling pile so they are little scratched up. I have to do some paint fix on them. All the fasteners are from the same pile so it was pretty easy to hang them up. I made the layout on the floor and transfer the mounting points on to the ceiling with my lasers point function.

I had four old 120cm light fixtures but they had no shades on them. I decided to do some vintage industrial style shades.

60 degrees looks nice. I made the end caps with a small vent.

Now they are ready to install. I bought some led tubes for the lights. I have two types of led tubes in my workshop, 4000k and 6500k and I'm not sure witch one is better. I think the 6500k is maybe too cold

And there it is, the hanging light, airline and power gable rack
I think the new light fixtures looks good above some mid-century machinery. Next step is to paint a section of the floor so I can do some shelving for tools and material.


Have a great and sunny week and weekend everybody!

 

[turbowoodworker]

Great project, well done sir.

 

[bdbecker]

Very nice!

I prefer 4k color temp as well. 5k feels too clinical to me, I'd imagine 6500 is even worse. But having the wrong color temp light is better than no light at all. Replacing them is probably one of those low priority "round to it" jobs - one of these days you'll get around to it, but until then you just live with it.

 

[T-handle]

Great project, well done sir.

Thanks turbowoodworker

Very nice!

I prefer 4k color temp as well. 5k feels too clinical to me, I'd imagine 6500 is even worse. But having the wrong color temp light is better than no light at all. Replacing them is probably one of those low priority "round to it" jobs - one of these days you'll get around to it, but until then you just live with it.

Thanks bdbecker

Yes I agree with you. Those 6500 kelvin tubes makes everything look a bit too blue. I ordered those tubes about 7 years ago and they still work perfect. When they starts to go down I'm going to change them to 4000 kelvin tubes. The led tube prices have gone down and now I can get them from a local hardware store pretty cheap.

 

[Jayman17]

Great improvement to your machine area! Thanks for the update. Summer where you live looks incredible, nice sunset photo.

Jay

 

[cros13]

Hey Brother! I just caught up with your thread, i don't think i had stopped by since page 5 or so!

Amazing organisation, I will have to show my apprentice at work when she complains to me that my work area and toolbox is too organised for her! A hint for you playing at home - it is no where as organised as your set up!

Great computer build, was it a video gaming build? or for other tasks. I built a new computer about 1 year ago, i spent about $1300 AUD (€800) on it. All the bells and whistles, water cooled CPU and all. I built it for high end gaming, and yet, there still hasn't been a new game i have wanted to test the PC capability on. I play nostalgic games from my childhood from 2000-2004 that could run on a potato.

I have to laugh how now you say its spring, and its a "warm" (for you) 10°C (50°F), So you are out in the garden doing as much as possible due to the nice weather.

It's the middle of winter here in Australia, and it has been getting down to a freezing 6°C (42°F) here. Blisteringly cold! I have no insulation in my garage, so i have been feeling deaths grip around my body when i work on the car. I am working in a beanie and jacket and pants! I don't have my cast iron pot belly stove at the new house, so i have a Infrared heater i wheel around wherever i work. Most nights its just too cold for me and i stay in the house!

And you are outside in a T-shirt mowing the lawn because its a beautiful warm day!!

Well i guess it works both ways, In summer here we regularly have week or 2 long heatwaves when every day is above 40°C (104°F) up to 45°C (113°F) and that's outside. Working inside our workshop or in my garage at home and the temperatures can creep close to 50°C (122°C) And well, that's just normal, we are working in those conditions daily!

We have had quite a few Mechanics come over from England, They get a work transfer from BT lift trucks Europe to the Aussie branches around the country. When they first get here, in winter they laugh at us all rugged up shivering in the workshop. They are all in shorts and a T-shirt. But when summer hits and we are cracking on with the work, they have collapsed from heat stroke!

I know it takes a few years to acclimate to a new environment, but i don't ever imagine my bones acclimating to those cold Northern Hemisphere temperatures!

Rudi.

 

[bdbecker]

...It's the middle of winter here in Australia, and it has been getting down to a freezing 6°C (42°F) here...

...In summer here we regularly have week or 2 long heatwaves when every day is above 40°C (104°F) up to 45°C (113°F) and that's outside...

I get the best of both worlds where I live. In winter, 0F/-18C ambient is not uncommon. That'll drop to -10F/-23C pretty regularly once you take into account the windchill factor. We set some records last winter when we got to -41F/-40.5C ambient, -60F/-51C with windchill.

In the summer we also see heat spells at/above 100F/38C. Never quite get up to that 110F/43C mark, but triple digits (as we call it) is a part of life during our summers. Oh yeah, our humidity level usually hovers around 75-95% for most of the summer as well... swampy!

Sorry for the derail...

 

[El Matador]

Love your attention to detail man! gorgeous shop!

 

[T-handle]

Great improvement to your machine area! Thanks for the update. Summer where you live looks incredible, nice sunset photo.

Jay

Thanks for stopping by Jay!

Like we say here about summer, Finnish summer is short and light with snow

Hey Brother! I just caught up with your thread, i don't think i had stopped by since page 5 or so!

Amazing organisation, I will have to show my apprentice at work when she complains to me that my work area and toolbox is too organised for her! A hint for you playing at home - it is no where as organised as your set up!

Great computer build, was it a video gaming build? or for other tasks. I built a new computer about 1 year ago, i spent about $1300 AUD (€800) on it. All the bells and whistles, water cooled CPU and all. I built it for high end gaming, and yet, there still hasn't been a new game i have wanted to test the PC capability on. I play nostalgic games from my childhood from 2000-2004 that could run on a potato.

I have to laugh how now you say its spring, and its a "warm" (for you) 10°C (50°F), So you are out in the garden doing as much as possible due to the nice weather.

It's the middle of winter here in Australia, and it has been getting down to a freezing 6°C (42°F) here. Blisteringly cold! I have no insulation in my garage, so i have been feeling deaths grip around my body when i work on the car. I am working in a beanie and jacket and pants! I don't have my cast iron pot belly stove at the new house, so i have a Infrared heater i wheel around wherever i work. Most nights its just too cold for me and i stay in the house!

And you are outside in a T-shirt mowing the lawn because its a beautiful warm day!!

Well i guess it works both ways, In summer here we regularly have week or 2 long heatwaves when every day is above 40°C (104°F) up to 45°C (113°F) and that's outside. Working inside our workshop or in my garage at home and the temperatures can creep close to 50°C (122°C) And well, that's just normal, we are working in those conditions daily!

We have had quite a few Mechanics come over from England, They get a work transfer from BT lift trucks Europe to the Aussie branches around the country. When they first get here, in winter they laugh at us all rugged up shivering in the workshop. They are all in shorts and a T-shirt. But when summer hits and we are cracking on with the work, they have collapsed from heat stroke!

I know it takes a few years to acclimate to a new environment, but i don't ever imagine my bones acclimating to those cold Northern Hemisphere temperatures!

Rudi.

Thanks for stopping by Rudi!

Well my wife keeps telling me to organize the kitchen too

I did my pc for editing videos. I guess it can be a gaming-pc too to certain point. My oldest son is in to gaming. He wants to test my pc for gaming and I have to check every morning is there any parts missing from my setup. I have played some games with my kids like minecraft and mortal combat with ps4 but it makes me dizzy

Hey 6 degrees, it's warm Now is the middle summer in here and it's about 15 to 25C when it's sunny and no moisture. I love it but 40 to 50C is way too hot for me. Well for sauna it's too cold, there it's about 100C but I will be there only like 20 minutes
Winter time it has been about 0C to -25C here. Not extreme cold for many years. When I was a kid there was over -30C temps a lot and over 1 meter snow.

I get the best of both worlds where I live. In winter, 0F/-18C ambient is not uncommon. That'll drop to -10F/-23C pretty regularly once you take into account the windchill factor. We set some records last winter when we got to -41F/-40.5C ambient, -60F/-51C with windchill.

In the summer we also see heat spells at/above 100F/38C. Never quite get up to that 110F/43C mark, but triple digits (as we call it) is a part of life during our summers. Oh yeah, our humidity level usually hovers around 75-95% for most of the summer as well... swampy!

Sorry for the derail...

Hey that sounds almost like a mine kind of weather. I haven't experienced that kind of humidity, I guess I would be sweating like a pig working there

Love your attention to detail man! gorgeous shop!

Thanks for stopping by El Matador



Speaking about organizing I made a small video about it. Check it out having a break

 

[Americancosworth]

That's very cool shop!

 

[T-handle]

That's very cool shop!

Thanks for stopping by Americancosworth




It's been really nice weather in here. Slowly getting the machine area forward but it's pretty hot in the shop now. I go to the shop early in the mornings and open the doors when it's still cool. I love the silence and the sunrise is awesome. I don't want to complain about the heat because it's rare and short period of time in here.

I painted the floor from the machining area and it looks great. I run out of paint and will do one more layer when the main structures is in place. I have used 9litres of concrete paint so far. I guess 18 litres will do the whole workshop.

I had some issues with the roller I used. Have some small hairs in the floor now, didn't see those until it was dry. Light sanding and new layer will fix that I hope.

Main reason I painted my workshop floors first time is my machining hobby. I just didn't get the chips of the floor with a brush, it was too coarse. Anyways it looks better and easier to clean when painted.

I made new baseboards from 1mm sheet metal. Glued those on the floor and screwed on the walls.

Made a little jig so the screws line up. The ocd part of the brain kicks out sometimes

And done. Now it's time to paint some old shelving units I have waiting for this area. I'm going to do some refurbishing to my machines so first victim is my lathe. It needs some maintenance and care

We did a small day trip to the island we have on the shore here. There's some beautiful beaches and sand dunes. Even the seawater was warm and we went to swim. We examine the map with the shopmanager and He found some funny places..

Freely translated there's a "**** bog" and the "**** area" Kids...


That's it for now. Have a great and productive weekend everyone!

 

[don long]

"T" your place is looking great. I really like the light and air rail hanging from your ceiling. I need to rework my machine area so I'm most interested to see how you lay your out.
Thanks for sharing your great place

Don

 

[matt_i]

T- really enjoying the sheetmetal work you are doing with the custom lights and the base trim for the wall! I would have never thought to build those, but yours look great.

I hope you enjoyed the vacation, nothing like going to a nice lake or beach Fun names lol...

 

[T-handle]

"T" your place is looking great. I really like the light and air rail hanging from your ceiling. I need to rework my machine area so I'm most interested to see how you lay your out.
Thanks for sharing your great place

Don

Thanks Don!

Those rails definitely saves some electric wire and airline pipe. I will expand my airline when the machines are in place. It's nice to have a airgun for cleaning chips from the work on your right hand side. (or left)

I will route my electric connection to the machines from the rail too. No gables on the floor and I can set a machine in the middle of the workshop.

Those rails is good for mounting a gopro when shooting some videos too..

I have some kind of layout for the machines but not confirmed yet
It's difficult to measure how much the machines need space with the table movements and stuff..

T- really enjoying the sheetmetal work you are doing with the custom lights and the base trim for the wall! I would have never thought to build those, but yours look great.

I hope you enjoyed the vacation, nothing like going to a nice lake or beach Fun names lol...

Thanks matt_i!

I bought my old sheetmetal brake ten years ago and it have definitely paid the price back. I have made a lot of flashing and trim with it for myself and my brothers.
There's a roofing store about half kilometer from my house so the metal is easy to get.

The lights came out nice and it keeps the light out of eyes when machining. The trim is good when placing stuff right next to the wall like shelving legs and so on.

I'm really enjoying the summer Thanks for stopping by Matt_i!

 

[T-handle]

Machining area update

I started refurbishing my first machine. This is an Erdmann (or as I call Her, Ms Erdmann) lathe from Germany. It's from year 1959 and I know from the history that it has been bought for a toolroom lathe in a feed plant when it was new.

I bought this lathe 2012. I cleaned, painted and made the safety covers for it. I had never turned a lathe before so I learned with this machine.

My first "restoration" was a fix&paint and go style. Now I have learned how to do it properly with checking the tolerances of the ways and bearings etc.. and have the proper tools and knowledge so I'm doing it again.

I bought it for 500€ and it was working okay, but the power feed was broken.
I took it apart and one of the worm gears was missing a teeth. I fixed it and it has been working fine since. I have made a lot of parts with the lathe and it has paid it's price long time ago.

I made new controls for it so it doesn't turn on with the handle on the carriage apron. I have heard a lot of horror stories about lathe accidents so I made new switch on the top of the headstock so kids don't turn it on. I made some chip covers and a e-stop pedal so it was nice to learn how to turn parts.


It took a day to disassembly Ms Erdmann. I took the bed of from the legs since the chip pan is between the bed and legs. I want to do some changes to the chip pan. It has a coolant tank on the chip pan and it's difficult to clean from chips so I'm removing it. Haven't use any coolant cos it's so messy. Cutting oil is enough for me. It is also pretty beat up so small dent work is needed.

Took the headstock of too so I can clean and re-line it properly. There's all kind of cavities to clean now when it's all apart. I soaked the parts with grease remover and pressure washed the parts outside. That was satisfying to do

I'm going to re-scrape the cross slide and the compound. I did some measurements and the lathe bed is straight. There's some scratches and small 0.02 valley in the front of the chuck. That is the place where 90% of the turning is done. That's close enough for me.
The bed ways are harden so it would need a big grinding machine to straight the bed perfectly anyways.

The spindle bearings had a 0,04mm play so I'm replacing those. These bearings were Koyo so the difficult part is what brand to go with. Koyo, SKF, Timken.. I think German lathe needs some German SKF bearings

I have installed a digital read out to the lathe. I was thinking a VFD for the motor but will see. I have a bunch of Omron VFD:s but I haven't test them if they work. I'm going to re-paint the lathe and was thinking about light gray. I like the red but I think Ms Erdmann is out of that phase going on her seventies




The shop manager has a cool project too. I was given two broken 50cc scooters so he is going to build one good one from the parts. I have to do some lowering for the scooter. The shop manager is 10 years old so the lowering is needed.
Or very tall shoes

He took both of the scooters apart and is picking all the good parts for hes new ride. He is thrilled and is buying paint at the moment

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

[Six Gun Matt]

That's a big project. Looks awesome!

 

[don long]

"T"
I have a lathe in my garage too. My dad had on in our basement that he used all the time. mine works ok but I need more tooling and some projects for it. I would like to take mine apart and go through it some time soon.

Your looks great.

Don

 

[T-handle]

That's a big project. Looks awesome!

Thanks for stopping by Six Gun Matt!
Yes it's a big project but most rewarding when done. This things last for a lifetime and more. I'm glad I have my John Deere for lifting the heavy parts.

"T"
I have a lathe in my garage too. My dad had on in our basement that he used all the time. mine works ok but I need more tooling and some projects for it. I would like to take mine apart and go through it some time soon.

Your looks great.

Don

Nice Don! I really like to see you doing a machine restoration. Turning is rewarding and relaxing to do. I love to do parts what you can't by from store.

Thanks for stopping by Don!

 

[T-handle]

I made a small chisel restoration. I bought a lot of old tools long time ago and this chisel came with the lot.

I did some search about the Sheffield cast steel. It's pretty interesting stuff.











Not sure how old it is but I'm guessing early 1900. It says "warranted cast steel" but I'm not sure about the other side. It definitely says "Sheffield" and the logo is a rabbit weathervane? not sure.



It sharpens very nice. There has been some impurities in the steel when cast and there's some holes on the blade.


Have a great and productive weekend everyone!

 

[matt_i]

Hey T-

I'm admiring your lathe disassembly - crazy amount of parts! Those spindle bearings can get expensive (!), is the error in runout when turning it over or is it something like when you pry on the spindle with a long lever? For the former there could be an error in the concentricity of the spindle tube itself....for the latter could it be possible they didn't have the backlash between the tapered roller bearings adjusted correctly?

In any case I think you'll have it figured out quickly. Looking forward to pics of some scraping masters and some surface plate printing!

Old chisels are something my Dad has an affinity for, he turns new wood handles for them and made his own sharpening jig for rolling it on a piece of glass with fine grit sandpaper.

 

[zanyad]

I made a small vid and I think it's the most entertaining restoration video ever made

Check it out. Chisel video

Loved it, thanks for the laugh!

 

[fartymarty]

I made a small vid and I think it's the most entertaining restoration video ever made

Check it out. Chisel video

Well Done!

 

[T-handle]

Hey T-

I'm admiring your lathe disassembly - crazy amount of parts! Those spindle bearings can get expensive (!), is the error in runout when turning it over or is it something like when you pry on the spindle with a long lever? For the former there could be an error in the concentricity of the spindle tube itself....for the latter could it be possible they didn't have the backlash between the tapered roller bearings adjusted correctly?

In any case I think you'll have it figured out quickly. Looking forward to pics of some scraping masters and some surface plate printing!

Old chisels are something my Dad has an affinity for, he turns new wood handles for them and made his own sharpening jig for rolling it on a piece of glass with fine grit sandpaper.

Thanks for stopping by Matt_i

Yes there is a ton of parts to go trough. I'm happy there's no rust on these parts. Last time it was a lot of soaking with rust remover when disassembled the lathe.

I measured the spindle run out by lifting it with a 1 meter long bar. It's there in all positions. The spindle and the L0 chuck mount taper is straight when turned against the dial indicator.

There's a L0 chuck mount in my lathe. The inside taper is a Morse5.

I have adjusted the bearing backlash and measured the temperature of the bearing not to get too hot. But no change. I'm glad that this lathe have different size bearings on the spindle. The front one is 32213 and the back one is 32210. If they were match pair of bearings they would be very expensive. This is not a super high precision lathe.

I think I can get new SKF bearings under a 100€.

I will re-scrape the cross slide and the compound. There's some wear in the bottom of the tailstock too but I cant repair that until I get my mill back together. I wish I had a Biax scraping machine to save some sweat, blood and tears Will see how the hand scraping turns out and what my back feels about it

I like old woodworking tools a lot. When there's some cheap Stanley planes sale I usually buy them. I have collected a few. Chisels and saws too. They look nice and work really well. Those are easy to repair too.

I have to buy some diamond sharpening plates. I'm sharpening with sandpaper glued on the surface plate too. I wish I had a wood turning lathe too to make the handles. Hmm

 

[T-handle]

Loved it, thanks for the laugh!

Well Done!

Thanks guys

We had a lot of fun with the shopmanager doing the video. It was men't to be a sarcastic video about restorations. When you watch the first 10 seconds about some rusty tool and then the last 10 seconds when it's fixed and shiny Lot of those in the Youtube.

Now there's some extreme action in the middle part of the video to watch

I guess somebody didn't get the joke and I have lost some subscribers. But that's okay

Have a great weekend everybody!

 

[fartymarty]

I guess somebody didn't get the joke and I have lost some subscribers. But that's okay

Some subscribers just have a stick up their as..er....well they have a large splinter in them and the pain causes them to be somewhat intolerant of anything less than super serious. They usually just watch videos so they can tell you how you did it all wrong in the comments section as they adjust their ...splinter placement.

 

[T-handle]

Some subscribers just have a stick up their as..er....well they have a large splinter in them and the pain causes them to be somewhat intolerant of anything less than super serious. They usually just watch videos so they can tell you how you did it all wrong in the comments section as they adjust their ...splinter placement.

That's the truth right there I'm happy to say that I have avoided the worst comment section trolls but they are out there lurking and adjusting their splinter

I'm doing my videos for fun and if it helps someone I'm glad. It's not how to do channel by any means.

Well, we just keep on going forward with positive vibes

 

[Bears Fan]

Nice lathe! I have a small Atlas lathe that needs disassembled, cleaned up and repainted but I'm half afraid of tearing it down, well not afraid of tearing it down, just afraid of getting it back together properly

I'm following along to see how your restoration goes

 

[matt_i]

T-

Great that you can get the bearings fairly inexpensively. I recall pricing some Gamet hollow-roller spindle-bearings for a Colchester once and was like WOW (!)

This is my favorite carbide hand scraper. Sandvik makes these wonderful big pieces of flat solid carbide. I don't have a picture right now but I bought some 3000 grit diamond wheels (thin sheetmetal wheel with diamond coating)

https://www.grainger.com/product/SANDVIK-COROMANT-CLAMP-ON-SCRAPER-5HME6

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075W4179N/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Then setup a 3 phase motor with a VFD that turns at 8Hz to spin the wheel, and an adjustable rest to put the 5 degree negative edge on the carbide. Works very well and a sharp but smooth edge.

I have a few cast iron bars waiting their turn to be milled and made into scraping masters...but that project got sidelined a bit

Looking forward to your updates!

 

[T-handle]

Nice lathe! I have a small Atlas lathe that needs disassembled, cleaned up and repainted but I'm half afraid of tearing it down, well not afraid of tearing it down, just afraid of getting it back together properly

I'm following along to see how your restoration goes

Thanks Bears Fan!

Lot of pictures when disassembling and nice order of parts and it's a fun project. Takes a lot of time and effort, but it's like a new lathe again.

Thanks for following along

T-

Great that you can get the bearings fairly inexpensively. I recall pricing some Gamet hollow-roller spindle-bearings for a Colchester once and was like WOW (!)

This is my favorite carbide hand scraper. Sandvik makes these wonderful big pieces of flat solid carbide. I don't have a picture right now but I bought some 3000 grit diamond wheels (thin sheetmetal wheel with diamond coating)

https://www.grainger.com/product/SANDVIK-COROMANT-CLAMP-ON-SCRAPER-5HME6

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075W4179N/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Then setup a 3 phase motor with a VFD that turns at 8Hz to spin the wheel, and an adjustable rest to put the 5 degree negative edge on the carbide. Works very well and a sharp but smooth edge.

I have a few cast iron bars waiting their turn to be milled and made into scraping masters...but that project got sidelined a bit

Looking forward to your updates!

Thanks Matt_i!

I can imagine the prices of high end bearings.

Thanks for the links! I have made a couple of scraping blades that uses a SNMA inserts for lathe tooling. I have some diamond disks for sharpening the carbide to right angle. It's nice to have four angles ready when you get the sweat out for scraping I have some HSS blades for tight spots like dovetails. German cast iron is soft to scrape

I have some old masters that used to be in a old machine company. I bought those from local craigslist. I've been looking for a large surface plate but the prices go sky high every time on auctions. I keep you guys updated



I managed to get the chisel ready. This was a socket style chisel but I added a thru bolt to the handle so it's a full tang chisel now.

I made the handle from birch piece I had laying around. Birch is the most common wood in here and it's nice to work with.












The blade had a lot of air holes and forcing marks but it came out nice. I have to buy some diamond plates to get my tools sharp.

Have a great week everyone!

 

[T-handle]

Today I bought a brand new camera.

It's called a Canon EOS M50 in this part of the world. Totally a new thing to me learning how to use it. all those functions makes me overwhelmed.

It's one of those rare moments when you have to open the guide book

It was a "vlogger kit" sale and came with rode microphone and a monkeypod.



I have to do some test filming and play with the settings.. a lot!

I had some empty drawers after the drawer organizing and made a new home for the camera.







I had some old half inch packing foam so I carved holes for the parts. Some extra space for lenses. The camera have a 15-45mm kit lens and I don't know what I need for my kind of video making. If you guys have some tips they are highly appreciated.







When I was at it I re-organized the Gopro drawer too.



Now I can finally learn how to do some timelap video with the Gopro when it's no longer my main equipment. Lot to learn

Now I go to sauna. It's only about 75F outside so I need some heat Then I do some manual reading.

Have a great week!

 

[bdbecker]

I love your attention to detail.

Excited for even higher quality YouTube videos!