Lathe, mills, drills, slotters, shapers and grinders (not angle grinders)

[davieh3350]

For those of you who like the things in the title, look up abom79 on the youtubes.

he's got a Lot of good videos been watching his stuff for a while

 

[davieh3350]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Machinerys...y+handbook&dpPl=1&dpID=51d74LVeK7L&ref=plSrch

That one was over a hundred

Loads of information in though.

 

[TheTallGuy]

For those of you who like the things in the title, look up abom79 on the youtubes.

I prefer This Old Tony, there's also Doubleboost if you want an English voice, but not so polished production.

 

[Gerbert]

Yeah I watch tony to. It's a good mix of seriousness and humour in between abom and AvE.

 

[pycoed]

Overall I like Keith Fenner's the best, though there's too much gab in nearly all the American stuff.
Oh, & why the hell they ALL have to show dialling in a part in the four jaw, or finding the centre of a shaft in a mill in EVERY video I do not know. It's tedious enough doing it yourself, let alone watching someone else do it

 

[TheTallGuy]

Overall I like Keith Fenner's the best, though there's too much gab in nearly all the American stuff.
Oh, & why the hell they ALL have to show dialling in a part in the four jaw, or finding the centre of a shaft in a mill in EVERY video I do not know. It's tedious enough doing it yourself, let alone watching someone else do it

That is why I like ToT - he usually does some kung fu to cut his stock rather than wasting time using a cutoff saw. There is just enough humour to stop the videos becoming boring & repetitive. He has also linked up & done jobs for other youtubers including contributing to one of my favourite projects - Marble Machine X by Wintergatan.

 

[mo!]

That is why I like ToT - he usually does some kung fu to cut his stock rather than wasting time using a cutoff saw. There is just enough humour to stop the videos becoming boring & repetitive. He has also linked up & done jobs for other youtubers including contributing to one of my favourite projects - Marble Machine X by Wintergatan.

ToT is all killa, no filla. The production values are top notch and the editing is nigh on perfect and I love the humour. Abom79 is good but too slow.

 

[davieh3350]

Just watched a couple of this old tonys vids, very good stuff.
Bit cheerier than abomb

 

[tomlad]

I watch all the above . Unfortunately i also watch chuckie a bit , but hes a bit of a Muppet tbf .
Do like john mills honesty, and i can understand him , just.

 

[tomlad]

As an aside anyone using a add blocker ??
It's for my Android tablet. I downloaded one but I think it wants to be my browser now so i haven't installed
Wot are u lot using??
Edit for Utube

 

[davieh3350]

As an aside anyone using a add blocker ??
It's for my Android tablet. I downloaded one but I think it wants to be my browser now so i haven't installed
Wot are u lot using??

I tell the lodger to hide the computay thing when I've had enough of it but can't put it down.
works well

 

[Dave W]

I prefer This Old Tony, there's also Doubleboost if you want an English voice, but not so polished production.

Wish I'd never read this thread you b'stards. Do you realise how many hours I've wasted watching this old Tony. He makes a potentially dull subject genuinely interesting.

 

[simmy_bull]

Wish I'd never read this thread you b'stards. Do you realise how many hours I've wasted watching this old Tony. He makes a potentially dull subject genuinely interesting.

Yup I discovered him too in about November and spent many an hour watching.

I now want a lathe to play with!!

 

[Gulli]

Yup I discovered him too in about November and spent many an hour watching.

I now want a lathe to play with!!

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2191052361111950/
This popped up on Facebook earlier. Likely needs a bit of a clean up but it's cheap enough

 

[Dave W]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2191052361111950/
This popped up on Facebook earlier. Likely needs a bit of a clean up but it's cheap enough

You'll do well to deal with that clown

 

[tinman]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Machinerys...y+handbook&dpPl=1&dpID=51d74LVeK7L&ref=plSrch

as tubby says, its the bible of this world.
i keep the seventeenth edition here, its around the time things were blending together so it covers everything, they all do but with the likes of the one in your link its going to be around the modern age of engineering so will be cnc based and wouldnt carry the information held in the earlier editions.
a mint one on the bay will make good money, iirc mine was 50 to 60 odd but its in perfect condition.

 

[Dave W]

What I wouldn't give to be a real machinist. I can use a lathe and milling machine. But there's a world of difference between using one a mastering one.
I can spend hours drooling on YouTube about how it should be done

 

[nickirl]

27th edition of machinery handbook some one sent it to me in off
So here ye go it's 31.5mb
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zzdrvpqwe2w9v21/AABG5rRwQPN0sH8dY6_BzP1Qa?dl=0

 

[Shovelhands]

What I wouldn't give to be a real machinist. I can use a lathe and milling machine. But there's a world of difference between using one a mastering one.
I can spend hours drooling on YouTube about how it should be done

Same here, I’ve had the machines for years, but never really had the time to ‘play’.
I only ever seem to get have a go when something ‘needs’ to be done! And the learning curve is usually almost vertical! Coupled to the fact that I’ve usually got to spend a while finding the tooling I need, or waiting for it to be delivered from MSC, and more often than not clambering over stuff just to get near the mill or lathe, it’s not really an ideal environment to master such arts...

But we get by

 

[Dave W]

Same here, I’ve had the machines for years, but never really had the time to ‘play’.
I only ever seem to get have a go when something ‘needs’ to be done! And the learning curve is usually almost vertical! Coupled to the fact that I’ve usually got to spend a while finding the tooling I need, or waiting for it to be delivered from MSC, and more often than not clambering over stuff just to get near the mill or lathe, it’s not really an ideal environment to master such arts...

But we get by

But we get by is a pretty crucial statement.
By and large we are jack of all trades, masters of some.
I'd dare bet if a machine broke down on a Sunday afternoon we'd have it going again before the machinist zeroed his lathe.
Ok that's a broad statement but you get the idea.
The ability to cobble something together off the scrap heap requires a genuinely large amount of skill. And not something that is ever taught in text books or classrooms.
Out of the precision machinist or the professional bodger, I'm not actually sure who is most skilled