Quarantined Shop Life - Day 1 Lathe Upgrades!

We are bringing it back to 2011 grimsmo videos with this quarantine video series! Stay safe out there everybody!

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Gear we use:
Sony A7iii
Zoom F1-LP Field Recorder
Rode VideoMicro Directional Recorder with Dead Cat
JOBY GorillaPod Compact Tripod with Ballhead

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Fan-Made Intro from: @zblade_open (Martin from Slovakia, thank you!)

For more Epidemic Sound music:
Sebastian Forslund: Bring Out The Thunder (Instrumental Version) (Intro Music)

[xenonram]

Don't question yourself on whether we enjoy these videos. This exact type of video is exactly got most of us watching your channel; when you were in the garage a few years back. Keep em coming. I personally would rather have a video like this more often, than one that had a cameraman, lighting, and fancy editing. I see no value in production quality. I don't care about it at all. As long as I can hear you and see things, I couldn't care less about that fancy stuff. I have watched Cody's Lab for the better part of a decade, and he hasn't changed a thing. (Video production-wise.)

[NoNamesLeft]

YES.
This is the content we want.
Sitting on your shoulder as you talk to yourself and work out the day's problems.

[Blue_-]

This was fun! Reminds me of when it was just you in the old garage with the mini mill and the Grizzly lathe.
It also shows how far you've come! 🔧😊👍

[tomrevere]

Put an edge finder in the live tool. Starrett 827A for example. Perfectly line up your Y and Z offsets.

[jimsvideos]

Using a grinder to make a cylindrical part for a lathe, I love it.

[mavericksdesign]

Just like the good old days when you made your own videos. Great stuff Grimsmo.

[GoldenAppleGamers]

Love these “old” style videos learn a lot and a lot of fun

[tacitus]

3 mins in and this is the best video you've put out in years!

[EZ_shop]

Hey John, I like the new quarantine style videos, they remind me of your old ones from the garage. Be safe. Ciao, Marco.

[coreyb]

A little note on swiss machines, a lot of the alignment of things can be done using the subspindle.
you can turn a diameter on the main spindle and sweep for the high point. you can then sweep the tool for the high point. if you use a 3/8 tool and turn a 3/8 diameter when the two jigh points are the same y is aligned. the same trick can be used to find the center height of a turning tool. if you sweep the sub to the guide bushing or a turned tiameter you can use the sub to pickup the id tool positions

[MechatronCNC-HVM]

I enjoy these old style deep dive videos 👍 a good mornings entertainment before I start up the workshop. Keep em coming 🔧

[jakenorthand]

I see we’re both taking advantage of the quarantine to make our razors last longer

[splitx]

This is the style of video I've been missing for a while. Love all the technical stuff.

[RabidSnailRacing]

Stay safe, John. There are a lot of us doing exactly what you are. Coming in alone, setting up, cleaning up, taking care of what we can while we ride this one out.

[MaxPower_Designs]

For the coolant hoses ty-rap them to the 90° electrical bulkhead using the spark plug wire/ty-rap trick. And for indicating the tools use 2 ground pins of the same diameter in the tool holder and spindle and put the indicator in the sub spindle or another reference surface.

[aserta]

Kinda old school cool, i liked it. Make the best out of your situation, that's the path we have to take right now. Stay safe!

[patrickflannery]

Really liked the video you have to appreciate what goes into the details (coolant etc.) Let's see what tomorrow brings.

[antoinekervazo]

Can'wait for the kern day !
I struggle with a 5 axis mill with bar feeder si those two vidéos will inform me both ways thanks!
Andy solution to have a touch probe in the bar feeder collet to set
Every tool offsets ?
Maybe too tricky and not précise enough...
Salutations frome France, locked home with my CNC too!

[Themakersworkbench]

I can not love this video more! John, please give us more content like this! I know your time is limited, but this video feels "old school Grimsmo!"

[LogicIndustries]

For finding center on your live tools:

Mic the bar in the spindle for diameter, then go find a pin gage the exact same size and put it into the spindle you want to center on the main spindle. Grab two rectangular gage blocks from your shop stash while you're there, doesn't matter what the sizes are, just mic the thickness of the two of them together flat ways and write that dimension down, along with the dimension of your bar stock and gage pin, and add them all up to get your total stack height.

Roughly align the two spindles by eye and then lay a gage block on top and bottom, touching both the bar stock and the gage pin in the two spindles. Mic over the two gage blocks and the pins/bar while it's all in the spindle and note the size you get.

If the measurement you pull from that assembly matches your stack height from step one, your spindles are aligned. If the measurement is larger, you've got a mis-match between the two spindle heights. Have a look and decide if you're high or low and adjust the Y up/down however much your measurement was different from your original stack height.

Should be able to hit it perfectly in two or three iterations, and it doesn't rely on feel or excellent eyesight.