Toolmaster Repair : FREE Lathe : Tour of a great Machine Shop!

[@williammccarthy5696]

Thank you for doing this for John's lathe .

[@10swatkins]

Your Welcome... I wish I could but it's just not in the cards right now...

[@ftownroe]

Love to see your tours of vintage machine repositories. Wish I had the space to have some of these old classics though I lack your talent and patience to restore these beauties.

[@10swatkins]

Thank you.... I love old machines and luckily I have a lot of patients when it comes to making them work....

[@markwatters6875]

Well done young fella. I sincerely hope you’s find a good home for the lathe. Thanks for the video.

[@10swatkins]

I hope so too, Thanks

[@sweetpeaz61]

That young man has an amazing shed full of machine tools, so glad theyve been saved from the scrapman

[@4GSR]

Steve, thanks for sharing, wish I had a place big enough to take on John's project I don't and I too getting to end of my lifetime, too. Hopefully, someone will step up and take it over. John couldn't offer his equipment to anyone more unique than Matt, hoping he cherishes it for a lifetime. And that odd shaped shop John has, there's a story behind it, if John hasn't already told you about it. Ken

[@10swatkins]

I noticed you were looking for a steady over on PM... What did you need?

[@4GSR]

@@10swatkins I'll send a PM over on the other forum.

[@johnb5519]

Always something interesting to see, thanks Steve.

[@bcbloc02]

That is a nice shop!

[@10swatkins]

I think so too!

[@nschelling6420]

Thanks for the Toolmaster information! I think that seal is leaking on mine as well. Also thanks for the tour of Matt’s shop. I have been following his thread on PM. I hope someone gives John’s lathe a good home. It is not for me, I need fewer projects, not more. I will say I am somewhat envious of the plentitude of machine tools you have down there. We are in what amounts to a tool desert. What you can get for the hauling down there is high priced here.

[@10swatkins]

It's only been in the last two years that things have become available, well at prices I can afford... I just came back from a trip to Arkansas and have made many trips into Oklahoma and 3 so far to Kansas! I usually live in a desert too, just lately has the monsoon season hit here :)

[@jeremycable51]

Am very glad to see a young buck doing this trade I’m young by most standards and just learning but 34 ain’t that young lol

[@Biketouring]

Hey enjoyed you video, keep them coming!

[@10swatkins]

Thanks, will do!

[@michaelcothran4064]

Steve I have been in this trade & have rebuilt many machines, last one was 1957 Monarch 24 X 12 , would love to rebuild another

[@10swatkins]

There are a lot of orphan machines out there... Maybe you could find one :)

[@markfoster6110]

Think you had better get it for Don he needs a long term project ...

[@10swatkins]

Oh he has one now.... Wait till next weeks video :)

[@donmadere4237]

Already working on my new acquisition!!

[@Hoaxer51]

@@donmadere4237,we’ll, let’s see a video on it! Get your camera man and production manager on it, he hasn’t been to busy lately, not if he has time to drive around and do shop tours and try to give away six ton projects! Lol. 😜

[@donmadere4237]

@@Hoaxer51 he already has filmed it Coming to acTheater near you Soon!!

[@Hoaxer51]

@@donmadere4237,,Good, we’re ready!

[@jeremycable51]

That’s a big boy if that’s the link your talking about nice machine tho I’ve already got a long lathe or I’d be interested plus I’d never be able to afford getting it home I’d have to buy a trailer and a truck heavy duty enough to pull it the 2500 miles from myrtle beach to south Texas and back

[@pilgrimm23]

Quite nice. Sadly I do not have the room. I have restored a Dalton Type 4 1922 vintage far smaller then the beast under discussion. There is no such thing as just ONE lathe :) I own 4. Nice lantern Toolpost on that lathe....

[@10swatkins]

Yeah! Whoever though one lathe would ever be enough :)

[@angrygnome4779]

Is that the same “John” who was the go to guy for Sheldon lathes?

[@10swatkins]

Maybe, He is a treasure trove of old machine information... He is on PM.

[@MatthewTinker-au-pont-blanc]

I love to take on the lathe as a project for my Grandson, but I'm on the wrong side of the Atlantic!

[@10swatkins]

IT would be a BIG bill to get it to you :(

[@lewiemcneely9143]

I think that guy is kin to Brian. Glad I just have the room I have or they'd be no telling what I'd have that I knew nothing about. Thanks, Steve and cut a meteorite for me....................... or maybe one of Dons old socks. GBWYall!

[@10swatkins]

Sorry I can't find the meteorite I have :)

[@lewiemcneely9143]

@@10swatkins Yeah, It'd be hard to start off with one of Dons socks right off the bat. That might do the old rig in without being warmed up proper on meteorite first.

[@fuglyfeet3373]

I wish i had room for it

[@opieshomeshop]

You should talk to kieth rucker about this.

[@10swatkins]

the question is why would I need to talk to him?

[@DannyJackson2529]

Where is the lathe? City and state. Thanks

[@jeremycable51]

Ok awesome video for real I hope someone helps these guys out and I’ll quite commenting i only commented so much because I know it helps promote the video

[@10swatkins]

Why thank You :)

[@jeremycable51]

@@10swatkins no trouble

[@prospectorphil4764]

I'd love to have that lathe, Unfortunately I don't think my old truck would make it that far, Or even haul that 8000 lb beast.

[@10swatkins]

Time for a new truck :)

[@jeremycable51]

Damn shame what’s gonna happen to that machine tho makes me pretty sad but there’s no way I can do it hope someone else steps up

[@10swatkins]

Have several people interested in it... There is Hope...

[@jeremycable51]

@@10swatkins good I was worried that’s a hell of allot of work idk anyone besides myself known to take disassembled projects lol

[@jeremycable51]

Ol boys as bad as me except I finally learned a lesson he’s gonna have to learn sometimes the potential you see no one else can see that 5ch is another machine that’s doomed because it’s condition and size i could have it but then it’d be my only mill I wouldn’t have room for my wells index 645 if I was him I’d start listing the machines he has no immediate plans for and get some people interested them

[@thebotformalityknownasdale2564]

Hi I would love to talk to you about my plans on a mill I looked for a email for you how ever I can't seem to find a way to reach you. I would love to take on the job of completing with a video documentation of the work to kik off a Chanel I have been gathering what I need in regards to video and audio my first project is the conversion of a radial arm saw to a mill surface grinder doing that and the lathe would be a work of pur joy. I have no way to get a hold of you so I can reflect my commitment to completing a man's project that I would love to blend my project in to his and how I think a video history is going to be half the joy and of great interest to like minded interests. And I am willing to pay the freight to get it to me.

[@10swatkins]

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[@10swatkins]

Have not seen an email from you ??? [e-mail]

[@THEIRONWORKER]

0000i have the same boring mill in my shop . Its is a great machine . /i think Adam Booth would like that machine for his new shop ABOM79

[@TBJK07Jeep]

Kinda sombering isn’t it? I kinda hate to think of years of collecting the tools, just when you think you have enough. Its time to thin them out. I hope a good home is found for it. I know my 1939 Monarch 10EE found a good home in my garage. Manual machining is such a dying trade that some day the manual machines may be the only things to remind us of those days.

[@10swatkins]

John is one of the only guys I have know that has arranged to move out stuff before it's a burden on the wife... I hop he at least keeps a small mill and lathe.. Guys got to have something to do :)

[@maxbray9124]

Atlas built Craftsmen lathes, a little better than a sharp file, not much

[@markfoster6110]

But so much better than a Milford!! Now that will stir things up

[@zanechristenson3436]

He better get his ass in gear he’s got enough work it may go to the next guy when he’s 82 lol. Man I wish I lived somewhere more industrial yet another reason to dislike Washington state lol

[@millomweb]

Well, Adam Booth (Abom79) is in the process of setting up a new shop and looking for machines !