WANTED: Dead or a LIVE CENTER

New Lathe. No Tooling. What's a guy to do? Make everything he's missing of course! Never mind that the lathe has its own set of issues. But this is related to solving those. I swear... or "putting the cart before the horse" is my middle name.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
1:01 Cheaper By The Dozen
2:16 Concentricity
6:43 I Told You This was Boring
8:29 The Morse Code
10:51 Between a Center... And a Center
15:29 Loose Ends
16:05 Because Pretty, Thats Why
17:44 This Is Nuts
19:08 De-derpification
20:25 Define "Smoothly"
22:09 Turds Make Turds

FAQ
Editing: Final Cut Pro X
Intro Song: Way Back Way Back When (Instrumental Version) - Gamma Skies

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[copescale]

Seeing all that runout was like seeing a murderer in a horror movie.

[mcseforsale]

'Pornstache is leaking" is by far one of the funniest things I've heard this week. Props to your better half!

[caseynewsom]

Just want to say i love your style of content. No other creater does nearly as good a job of explaining the methods and procedures you use to measure accurately and machine precisely. Its so much more interesting than just watching chips fly. Thats what makes your content something to come back to every time in my opinion! One of the last channels untainted by flashy thumbnails and over sensationalism! Bravo sir

[ChristopherLien]

I'm a little surprised you didn't embark on a side project to set yourself up for cylindrical grinding on the surface grinder.

[cubikx]

Just a fun little fact I have learned going for my machinist ticket, this is technically a "rotating dead center" The dead and live refer to if the center has power behind it or not, so the same center could be live if its in a headstock or dead in a tailstock.

That being said I will still call them live centers

[edo]

Great video as always. Hint: (re)finish the end of the live center at assembly, install the center in the tailstock. Use a vacuum cleaner belt with a make shift pully in an electric drill to drive the live center. Fit the belt over the live part of the live center-I normally just have someone else operate the electric drill, your tail stock just became the drive to turn the live center perfectly concentric. Take very light cuts with the compound, and a very sharp cutter. This is also how you fix your other centers.

[jonathanoostendorp]

I purchased a set of MT2 and MT3 reamers to clean up tailstocks and headstock of smaller machines. With a little care, you might be able to correct the problem.

[willhutton]

If you are getting any grinding equipment in the shop, I’d highly recommend getting both the regular wheels and one CBN wheel. Those CBN wheels will NEVER wear out. Use a diamond stone to get them flat, then you simply use it until you either crash it to where it breaks, or you use it enough to where you wear out all the material from trueing it up with the diamond stone lol (in about 400 years lol)

[beardyeighty]

You and @CuttingEdgeEngineering are my two favorite things about Fridays.

[swager]

Ty so much, At 74 years old I miss Machining .... the lathe as always been my favorite machine so is all the rest . I Had tear in my eyes when watching this video I thank you . I do wish I had the money to have my own little shop and keep inventing what people never saw or even teach it . I won the number 1 in Canada for building a testing machine for a word wide compagnies . Thanks again really enjoy these video .

[stevewyckoff]

Instead of using the tailstock chuck to align the pre-load not in the lathe, you might want to consider making a "pusher" - a Morse taper with a disk on its face, faced in the lathe to make it square to the lathe axis. Very handy.

[intellectualiconoclasm]

You spin me right-round, machinist, right-round! Like a live-center, right-round!

[harmlesscreationsofthegree]

We have an old saying here in Australia. You can’t polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter. Or bronze chips. Either way, a fun vid and the start of a new tailstock journey 🙂

[dennythomas]

The appropriate size Morse Taper reamer will go a long way to correcting your tail stock issue. It worked wonders on mine.

[ProfessorMAG]

A Morse taper reamer chucked in the headstock and run into the tailstock is what I used to fix a rough bore. Worked wonders, just go SLOW! (rotate by hand)

[raskp]

Cutting these Morris tapers as just another step in the process is making me very happy. I watched Adam Savage learning this process and it always brings a little extra Zen watching this channel.

[phillhuddleston]

When you need more precision than a typical non-adjustable three jaw chuck try using a Buck style three jaw chuck instead. They are the same as a standard three jaw chuck but offer a small amount of adjustment to get the part running concentric with the spindle without loosening and retightening the jaws possibly scratching or marring the part. They are more expensive than a traditional three jaw chuck but well worth the money, once you use one you will not want to use one without adjustment.

[RambozoClown]

Now you see why cylindrical grinders use dead centers, often spring loaded to account for part growth.
I'm sure you can tune this up with a little work.

[Robert-yks]

13:21 in your next iteration maybe you need some sort of spring mechanism to allow the live center to automatically take up the heat induced change in length.

[MNWCreations]

Seeing those curls and then going "everything reminds me of her" - but deviating to a razor segue, nice.