Its a pretty right fir so it shouldn't induce any twist EDIT: I looked back at the footage I had, and yes it was a little low, but I did shim it tight.

Yeah I was thinking of the wrong molding process, cheers

Agreed, that bar looked a little too loose for my liking.

Not sure why it looked that way on camera, there was a small low spot, but its a pretty tight fit

@@artisanmakes it looks at least 5 hundreds, that is huge

@@TheMorpheus017 I think I had to add 2 bits of shim and that tightened it all up.

Also the ridges left after milling on the mating surfaces will affect positioning ever so slightly, it will want to find a high and low on a position, if the exact position corresponds to 2 high spots /ridges you won't have a total contact area

Though wood is actually really good at absorbing. But it's no way as stuff/strong as a steel bench top

It's not likely for that small vibration to transfer to the workpiece though when the whole machine is moving as one

@@cda32 i know but every little bit cound on those small machines

Its a pretty tight fit so there isn't any room for movement, it lokis a little loose on camera, but its final mounting location way a pretty tight fit EDIT: I looked back at the footage I had, and yes it was a little low, but I did shim it tight.

No worries, glad these videos helped

Its a pretty tight fit actually, not sure if it looked that way on camera. There was a small low spot but its not mounted there EDIT: I looked back at the footage I had, and yes it was a little low, but I did shim it tight.

Ade's workshop is fixing up the same mini lathe and added a fourth bolt for the headstock, and sat the whole thing on a steel box section pipe to be filled with concrete to stiffen things up a bit.

I tore the lathe apart to redo the grease after 6 months and it still seemed to be well lubricated, so I dont think regularly replenishing the grease is too necessary

I did have to shim it a bit since I made the block a little under size to avoid it twisting the lathe. The video schedule is a bit difficult but a lot of this is old footage from the beginning of the year/end of last year that I'm slowly getting through editing. It's bit easy but I enjoy it.

@@artisanmakes great:)!

Danger of distortion using heat

yes I did, I had to shim the bottom to get it to fit tightly

At that point he may as well just get a block of granite and some linear rails, throw the rest away, and just use the lathe spindle.

You should be fine to do plastic and wood with this type of lathe in its stock form. Just properly tighten the gib strips and carriage retainer strips before you use it

The coolant I use is a 10% mix of semi synthetic coolant with water. For chips, I use a bagged shop vac and I just throw out the chips in the rubbish. I don't produce enough chips to warrant recycling.

it should work

I dont see why not

Mostly due to the space I have to work with. There aren't many hand held ones sold in my part of the world and the one I have used I wasn't too impressed with

That is a great idea, I'll have to do that when I next have the lathe apart

yeah for sure, I had to use a few shims to get it perfect

It deals with the DOC butter with a rougher. And anything other than high-ish rpm didnt do any good with that much stick out

Its a semi synthetic, low concentration, but im looking to replace it

I dont think you can spot weld cast iron

​@@artisanmakes Embarrasing - I don't do any welding myself! So I really shouldn't speak much about it.😁😅I have done a reasonable amount of turning, milling, casting, soldering/brazing etc in my life, and I do have my own lathe (second one I own) and mini mill, so I'm not generally speaking of things I don't know. About size and weight, somewhat incredibly I was even given a "small" manual industrial lathe for free the other year, but in the end I very sadly had to turn the offer down, due to freight/moving considerations, and floor weight requirements of that machine. It really agonizes me, and may well to some extent haunt me for the rest of my life. When I was a teenager, I would have killed to get such a lathe! And then 45 years later, I turn such a free gift down. Thank's for a nice channel! I'm kind of maybee possibly nearing retirement, so maybee I'll get serious (again) about shop work in coming years, like I was in my youth? During my work life, I've hired other people to fabricate things for me. And in the end I never did scratch build a live steam locomotive, but instead bought an Aster kit and also other already built up locomotives, that I just used my lathe to modify parts for. But I have been hand's on involved in shop work on prototypes - just because I actually love machining etc. I don't even do my drawings on computer. Computer drawing didn't exist when I went to school and university. Instead so far, I've hired people to "transfer" my paper drawings into CAD/CAM stuff. Frustrating and sad really.

Doesn't seem to be any twisting. It was all shinmed tight to avoid this and the lathe doesn't seem to be turning a taper. Happy days :)

@@artisanmakes So you're in luck...

I think his lathe is single speed.

Well the steel post in the headstock worked so I saw no need to use it, plus epoxy granite it quite expensive in my part of the world. As for doing the bed, there isnt much flex it it, there are other areas that are more important than that that would see noticeable improvements.

Had to shim it to size. It proves to be much cheaper than epoxy

hot rolled mild steel

Somewhere around 700 rpm from memory

The whole video is a finished photo

It just needed an extra half turn with the socket set. I just didnt film it

How is your lathe performing now.. Please share your views

@@RoyMeraki Haven't been able to test it as well as I want as I'm not done with my solid tool post to replace the compound slide yet.. That being said, it seems to have been a massive improvement. Getting the whole machine to vibrate like it sometimes did before is virtually impossible now. It's about 10kg of epoxy granite in total, filling the whole bed casting, the area where the stock motor sits and I also filled the headstock up just below the spindle bearings! The disadvantage is I have to pray to god the headstock stays aligned as there's no adjusting that ever again now... I'll try to remember to share results once it's done!

@@josefstalin4532 thank you for thoughts. Would definately wait for your review post your solid tool post mod. I have lathe 14X40" and is resonably stout weighing in at 850 kg. The grief I face is only with parting. I heard that epoxy granite stays resonably accurate after curing and is not prone to deform, do you really think that epoxy fill could warp machine castings ?

@@RoyMeraki I'd say it's very unlikely, at least to a measurable degree. Just make sure to get a really slow curing epoxy so it doesn't heat up too much.

@@josefstalin4532 in india slow curing epoxy is not available pot life is approx 2 hours and full cure to 24 hours. if it generates heat I will apply probably in layers.