Great to see a young man doing an excellent job, I have been plowing for over 43 years. It does get old after a while, but I am afraid if I stop now, well the inevitable would happen. Yes, I am a few decades older than you. I don't mind though, knowing and seeing your work ethics. Keeps it up my friend. Stay safe

Get/make a plastic or metal backsplash panel for it; as you will end up spraying cutting oil on the wall otherwise. Also, that machine is nice enough to warrant a DRO for it.

Absolutely amazed at all the stuff you can do with that mini Ex!! W😅w! Love it, my husband and I sooo enjoy watching you guys work your magic. Those 2 rocks were almost as big as the Kubota! Just so amazing. Keep doing what you do...your subscribers from Maine

Great video. I just subscribed!

Huge?!?! Pffft...

How do you film that angle?

Hello from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 Hope winter has been good for you fellas! Excited to get back to landscaping soon myself! ✌️

Interested in that thing that flew over your head, beginning of filming, walking away from garage. Also; love these videos. I live in N Georgia mountains. Daffodils are already poking out of the ground. We don’t get much snow. However, we come from New England. I’ve made a lot of $ as a kid shoveling .

Great job!!

Looks great!❤ Fun video to watch.

seems to be a great lathe. but it is not huge: look at the American Pacemaker of Adam Booth or the lathe Kurtis of CEE purchased last year. as a young man I worked on a German VDF-lathe. compared to that your lathe is midsize.

What a deal .... And sure enough you got Abom 79 and Sam at Scrappy Inds to get and share some knowledge . Waiting to see the first project .

Have used först chippers on many occasions and they are superb.

I was learned and working on a bigger one. But somehow old turners tell me that's a mid-sized one, heh.

for the gear oil... just an oil syringe... works great and clean

I just bought a sheldon the same one you have it is in very good shape

"I'm not an electrical person..." Understatement of the year.

Good deal. I spent too much time spinning one.

Well done on the video Nick! I am so happy we got this lathe!

Use an Amp Clamp to check motor amp Draw VS MOTOR NAME PLATE

hrmm.. a HUGE lathe??

I see old lathes being bought, i subscribe

A lathe for a landscaper??

Thats NOT the way to secure it to the trailer but if ya don't know......The lower shaft & collars is a stop for the carriage feed, nothing to do witih oilers

Yeah, tooling, and metrology adds up fast. Someone gave me a free CNC lathe that I fixed some electronics issues on for less than 100 in parts, and I've just finished ordering tooling and inserts for it - boring bars, threading bars, external cutters in a few shapes, both left and right, and all the inserts, jaws and custom t-nuts for the chuck, bushings to hold the boring bars in the turret - probably close to 1k easily, and I'm buying the super cheap import tooling direct from the source. If I was buying name brand, I'd be into it for $7k to $8k easily just in tooling.

Definitely get a VFD like that other comment said. So much faster/easier/cheaper/better. The only reason to use a phase converter is if you need to power non-motor 3PH items. VFDs are so much better for things like lathes, grinders, mills, etc. But, for instance, I have a sewing machine which has a computer on it which is wired for three phase (in addition to the motor which is also 3PH). For that sewing machine I would need a phase converter.

This is not Huge

I think that you did very well on the Victor. Adam Booth has one that looks to be similar vintage. Watching him use it demostrates that they are good machines. I am in a similar boat with you. I restored a 30's-40's LeBlond that was abused as a welding fixture. I later added an American Pacemaker that I have pretty thoroughly gone through, and then last summer, I purchased an Elliott 1530 gap bed. The Elliott is a 6HP. All three larger lathes exceed my current 3 phase capacity. I started to build a rotary phase generator with the first new 15HP motor that I found for $100. I ran into some issues spinning up the 3500 RPM motor on single phase. I have options, but winter set in before I took action in my unheated machine shop. Now I have 3 lathes ready to make chips that exceed my 3 phase capacity. Parts that I want to make for my larger lathes are a challenge since I currently rely solely on my little Craftsman/Altas. I spent all winter in my climate controlled woodshop. That is my plan. I alternate between shops with seaonal weather changes. My son-in-law did brave cold temperatures last night to do transmission line replacement. I have space and a 14k# lift that he doesn't own. Deals are out there. I am running a Powermatic 66 table saw with Bessemeyer fence 72" rip capacity on a Powermatic rolling base that I purchased two years ago for $200. I had to tweak some things. The fence gauge rail was not machined square, and the belts were bad. The only expense was new belts and replacing minor mismatched hardware. I was going to machine the defective mounting rail, but it was faster and quicker to shim it. I won't bother to go further, as machining will require possibly 3 setups in the mill with complicated fixturing and no functional operational improvement. My Elliott is quirky in that it only has an integral 4-way tool post and uses no clutch to operate the motor. You actually start and reverse the motor with an accross the line starter via the apron shaft lever handles. This design eliminates any practical VFD option. I think that the term "engine lathe" refers to a lathe with geared head and spindle clutch engagement. The spindle motor runs at constant speed (varible speed in some variants with integral VFD). Speed and feed ranges are integral gearbox controlled, requiring little or almost never change gear requirements. The smaller bench top lathes with spindle motor on/off functions don't get the engine lathe classification. I call my Elliott an engine lathe in spite of its uncommon spindle control setup. Otberwise, it is every bit of your Victor model. My Elliott is from England. It is the only Elliott that I have ever seen or heard of prior to my purchase. I have 3.5 decades of experience with Clausing Colchester. Our shop had many of them. They seem to be the English standard engine lathe. I maintained them for my 3.5 decade maintenance career. We had one Le Blond and a Mazak Mate in the mix during those years. I grew very fond of the Clausing Colchester. Our machines ran 3 shift production with very little maintenance requirements. We were mostly CNC production, but every shop still requires some manual machining capacity. When I began my industrial maintenance career, we had rows of those 1970's vintage Clausing Colchester lathes still cranking out production quantities. I want one for familiarity and nostalgic reasons.

I believe technically it’s an Engine lathe , it has multi function machine and a very versatile bit of kit ,you scored with this one , you may want to have the coolant later as you learn more and do more.

You will certainly like the new Victor for the extra rigidity. I have a similar Grizzly lathe with the cast base and it is so much more rigid than the benchtop or sheetmetal stand lathes. Also, chuck and part weight contribute significantly to your startup difficulties. I have a 84# 10" 6 jaw Bison chuck that does not like to startup on the higher speeds. I switch to a small 5C collet chuck and it spins up like nothing at 1800 RPM. Good luck with the machine.

Should have used two strands of romex instead of using the ground in the romex. Typically called two conductor with ground. Instead of popping fuses you could put a high wattage light bulb in place of the fuses (or three for 3 phase.) If they light up bright then you have a short. Once they dont light so high you can switch to fuses. Use clamp on ammeter to check current to each of the three legs of the motor.

I need to pick up a cheap one too.. So I can work on poo poo. Part's ❤! Lol

Walio great video,! New. Sub here

Suggestion to try for your power issues... i got a cheap VFD from Vevor (10hp version) for my Clausing with a 5hp motor i picked up at auction just to see what it would do. Runs it no problem. And its nice to be able to do a slow start and variable speed easily.

Hello, I have the same 1630 lathe made by victor. Great machine, mine does not have the taper attachment. The black collars on the lower shaft you pointed out can be set to kick out the z axis (longitudinal) power feed, handy for parts repetition. The 1630 is 16" swing and 30" between centers. I use the coolant all the time for drilling mainly, very handy. Parts for this lathe are available at a los angeles dealer. Very heavy duty machine, kind of a copy of a moreseki lathe. Have fun with it, you made a awesome purchase!

you got a deal if that lathe came from a school, she's barely broken in

Way beyond my pay grade …Having said that - man that would be cool to learn….”boys & their toys” Now you get to “make it” instead of buy it.

Have you tried using hashtags in the description? Like #lathe, #pavers etc. I believe you could get more views and potentially more subscribers! Really enjoy watching your videos and channel. Thank you!

Same lathe I ran for 20 years good machine.

It’s great to see the other side of your interests. You are definitely a talented individual. I look forward to some new vids with new content. Thanks for sharing.

Great review! Mine is not moving in 2nd or 3rd gear. Any thoughts on how to repair?

really great video on that tracked dump wagon...I was going to build one with some different specifications...I was thinking of one that you can drive that is not 30K....very cool ...thank you for the video...-John

Such precision! Nice job guys. Enjoyed the video

Keep coming to your vids for different reasons first the KX033 then some technique, the tiltrotator...we're always looking to improve, create and repair attachments. The look inside the gripper was very useful as we try to make a knockoff of it in our shop this winter. You do great work on and off the job site.

You keep working you’ll get better. Nothing like experience only way to learn how to do something. Your on your way to being a operator

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Nice work man

Killer setup, rotating, angling... all the things! Right tool for the right job. Nice work!

What is your price per square foot on a project like that?

Yardmax/Kubota “work smart not hard.” Amazing how well you know how to use that Kubota….thank you for sharing