Journey to Journeyman, Episode 23, South Bend Addition. Making a tap and a boring bar.

In my new series "Journey to Journeyman" I will try to become a proficient hobby machinist. I will be learning how to use my Atlas 618 metal lathe to make parts for my restorations projects. I use my South Bend 10K to make a tap and a boring bar.

[sittinbullmb]

Thanks for the video. I am inspired to try more as I learn with you.

[jaredrattray]

Thanks for keeping it real and sharing your mistakes. Love your work!

[Stefan_Van_pellicom]

Great to see you have so much fun with that ! 👍

[TheShadeTreeFixitMan]

Thanks for sharing. I don't think I will ever be doing any threading with my little lathe (like your original one) but just watching how you set your cutters was a big help to me. I'm still learning. Blessings

[eddietowers]

Great Job! 👍 practice makes perfect, many, many, many, many, many moons ago when I started threading on the lathe, I had made a number of mistakes, then I practiced with scrap, now I can’t mess up, while sleeping, wearing a mask, with one hands tied behind my back. LOL (people, do not attempt). You did great, and as you said, lessons learned.

[dougvanallen]

Hey Jester your turning into one of us great job friend

[pierresgarage]

This worked out great...!!!
The biggest lesson to me, is, if it doesn't work the first time one way, try different ways until it works.... 😎👍
WOW the way you clocked and threaded that internal thread was impressive, I would trust you to hand guide a big Airbus in a hangar with only one inch of clearance on each side... 😨🙈😎👍
Your chaser was doomed from the start, the main reason is that it needs to be a little bigger (A thousand or two) than the thread of the screw you need to insert, there you got the measures from the external thread in order to make a screw not the internal measure required to be done to include the necessary clearance to be able to get the screw into the thread... Hope I expressed myself in comprehensible manner...
Good quality dies or chasers are made from HSS steel, the real hard stuff...!!! Mild steel with a content under at least .40% aren't considered hardening quality, and once you heat treat anything it needs to be ground after. You probably remember some bad experiences with "High Carbon, High Quality" drill bit sets, those are only good in soft materials like wood or soft metals, to me they're the best way to get you in trouble.
Guess your son got a good lesson of persistence if he accompanied you along the process... 👍

[dass]

I just found your channel.
Great to see you trying various ways of getting things done, tap didn't workout went with boring bar 👍
I also have a atlas 6 18, not as nice as yours and I just got a south bend 10k, older than yours and packed with 3 times the chips.
I don't like air guns anymore.
Doing a rebuild.
Seeing your work is a inspiration.

[Grabber-bxns]

Hi Jster. Be sure to make yourself a protective board to lay on the ways of the lathe. So easy to ding them. The steel you used for the tap was probably low carbon steel so will not harden unless you case harden it. An even number of threads on the Southbend should be any number on the thread dial. I have the same lathe but Boxford. Great job. All the best. Jim from England. (Currently on holiday in Florida). By the way, I spent this morning looking around Harbor Freight. Been looking forward to that for ages after hearing you and the others talking about it.

[RickRose]

Congrats on getting that chuck to work. You da man.

[royreynolds]

An added suggestion is to make sure there is enough clearance and relief for the tool point so there is no dragging of the tool. It is more important the smaller the diameter gets. Ya did good.

[dcw]

Nice job, jster, and nice to see another Joe Pie fan on the 'Tube!

[FrancisoDoncona]

Great job, it feels great when at last you succeed. Given me inspiration to start threading this coming winter.

[cross]

who the man, you is, great job well done.

[powaybob]

Well done! I always start threading at number 1. Easier on the brain that way.

[johnmcdonnell]

Goofs job! Takes a lot of guts to attempt internal threading but following Joe Pie’s advice you have some knowledge in your pocket!

[TheJoyofPrecision]

Hey you forgot to squeal your tires, lol. Great job, and great video!

[pweimer]

I Purchased a Nose Protector for my 6”. It was really tight, so I bought a tap and it went all the way through it. The spindle must be a little larger. I’ll have to try and open up the threads on the protector. Thanks for the video, have a great day!

[PauloSilva-llvs]

Another great job, thank you fpr this wonderful class. I found out my sanches blanes lathe has the same thread as the southbend, so I can buy the same four jaw chuck.

[McFingal]

Another fine job, but you can’t harden mild steel that well. Plus use oil to quench there Cap’n.