Get your Helm on!

[@KeithFenner]

@ArtemiaSalina Thank you, for your jumping in! In reading it again, I might a been a bit vauge on the threading start, I thought he was refering to the plunging timing, during the left hand process:)

[@KeithFenner]

@curtis9188 Well the helm is the ships wheel, the tiller,the steering wheel :) The tread starting is just feel, self timming...

[@KeithFenner]

@billdlv In that video, I was stating that there are two kinds of dials, one being a direct dial and the other being a actual dial. on my Clausing the dials are direct style. Funny each manufacture starts the zero location, eather the cross feed or the bed ways...

[@TheClassicEngineer]

Excellent, as ever ingenious and thoroughly enjoyable! I hope there are plenty new engineers and machinists watching so they can see that there are so many ways to achieve things if thought out properly, just showing CNC has its uses but isn't always best! Thanks Keith, Regards, Simon.

[@KeithFenner]

@SlowEarl1 If you had just the center hub hard mounted you can cut S/S with a shaper, it wouldn't be riggid enough as an assembly. When your working a flat face cutter or toolbit, your going to want to keep your passes shallow, I'd say about .005" is good...

[@KeithFenner]

@DieselCrawler86 If I was only allowed one or the other, I would choose the four jaw and I really like four jaw chucks with T nut slots, between the jaws, to use as a face plates also. I have used a few six jaw chucks over the years, nice for persision rounds, sad when somebody chucks on a piece of hot roll with them though. I've also used a few independent three jaws at one of the yards I worked at.

[@aj9270]

great video ! I love watching a true craftsman at work !

[@KeithFenner]

@billdlv Ya, I meant that, but had 60 included in my head and the compound reads 60 at that angle, on my lathe...

[@KeithFenner]

I guess, because it’s the tool that got replaced and I just carried over the name! If you had started out in the trade, before Dial calipers had come about, you may think that way!

[@tlmanning486]

Wow man. Awesome way to cut the key way, never would have thought of that

[@Polypropellor]

Jeeze, Keith! I musta learned at least twenty things new in that video. If this keeps up, ahm gonna need a bigger head! Thanks, man. Your videos are just awesome!

[@KeithFenner]

To get it closer than your 75% or so, lap fit it with clover lapping compound. Even if it was ground. ;{)---

[@GnosisMan50]

Thanks for responding Keith..I just added it to my MSC list.

[@Welder6131]

Nice job Keith, keep the videos coming!

[@lateby]

great video Keith thank you

[@67fletch]

also thanks for all the good vids love them keep them coming.

[@guubagaaba8391]

WOW !! a hand powered taper/shaper. only you keith !!!!!!!!

[@larrycainis]

more great stuff Keith

[@billdlv]

@kef791 thanks for the clarification. That makes sense I think in a previous vid you said your dials are actual reading too. I haven't used many lathes but they all have been direct reading dials and set to 30 for 60 included.

[@ArtemiaSalina]

@curtis9188 A helm wheel is the steering wheel on a boat. You use the gear box in the headstock and the half-nuts in the carriage on a lathe to synchronize the toolbit's travel along the axis of the bed with the threads you're cutting. A thing called a threading dial is used to tell the operator when to engage the half-nuts and start the carriage moving at the right time.

[@carlosaureliomorenodeancel1845]

Hello Mr. Fenner My name is Carlos Aurelio, I live in Brazil and I am a lathe operator. I've been watching your videos I must say that I've learned a lot with you. Thank you and congratulations keep on this way.

[@KeithFenner]

Thank you! Carlos cheers, ;{)------

[@SlowEarl1]

Could you use the shaper for the keyway if it was stainless and if so how much material would you take off at a pass.Thanks for making the great videos.

[@KeithFenner]

Thanks for the comment! ;{)-----

[@billdlv]

Nice job Keith yeah aluminum was definitely the right choice. Using your lathe as a shaper made total sense. I didn't get the part where you said 60 on the compound. Don't you mean 30 for threading?

[@Kalkaekie]

Another happy customer !

[@67fletch]

ok just wondering i have used both i use a 8" dial caliper on a daily basis.

[@Erniz2]

I think calipers is the tool its self, verniers is dial scale on the calipers.

[@ArtemiaSalina]

@KEF791 Yeah, I have a bad habit of jumping in like that. Apologies if I spoke out of turn there. :-) Well, I've done it. I've watched every one of your videos to date, so I'm all caught up. I appreciate your generosity in taking the time to make those videos! It can't be easy to do while you're working, especially considering the multiple camera angles!

[@Duckyistrippin]

vernier calipers, veneer is an over layment. vernier is the commonly accepted "proper" name forany type of sliding calipers. We were trained as such in the shipyard. Even to this day. Though technically digital and dial calipers are just that.

[@GnosisMan50]

Whoa! I'm working on a job right now boring a 2.5" per foot taper on a 1 5/8" dia SS bar 2.5" long using a telescopic taper attachment instead of the compound rest. I got it as close as I could to match the tapered rod that goes into these bars but for the life of me I can't get full contact with both in the entire length on the bore which is 1.250" I get about 75% of it ..it this to be expected on a lathe oppose to grinding?

[@WAVETUBE84]

Another tricky fix/adaptation. Saved the customer a few bills. I'm sure that they want a pretty penny for one of those wheels "off the shelf".

[@67fletch]

why do you call dial calipers veneers?

[@DieselCrawler86]

notice his glass of pop? Its kind of like wheres waldo for me now! Keith The shop I run right now has only 4 jaw chucks on all the lathes. Some days its a pain but you do get good at getting parts in and out fast after a while. What do you think of that? also have you ever used a 6 jaw chuck?

[@curtis9188]

wtf is a helm wheel? also in your last couple vids when you are cutting threads how do you engage the tool at the exact spot the threads start with the piece spinning?

[@tedsykora1858]

almost identical to a project I have coming up. wish it was aluminum

[@dermotkelly2289]

Hi Kieth My name is Dee and I'm a British expat living in thailand. I was a maintenance fitter/ machinist working for a motor car manufacturers in the u.k. You have taught me a lot as regards to machining and repair, you knowledge is second to none. I have a question. I saw you one one of your vids turning a shaft between centers using a center in the 3 jaw chuck with a driving dog. I was once turning a 4 foot shaft between centers with 3 steps at each end with a thread on both ends. At that time I never liked the shop foreman because he never explained why he wanted things done his way, he just said do as your told and don't ask questions your not paid to ask questions. He saw me turning the shaft the same method as you using the 3 jaw chuck with the center in it. He said what the F..... do you think your doing? I said I'm turning between centers. He said take the shaft out and take the chuck off and put the center in the spindle. I replied with every thing is fine and running true and parallel. Do as i say he said. Were we right doing the job our way?

[@KeithFenner]

Some guys have a wild hair when it comes to doing it a certain way, you have to roll with it if he is writing your paycheck. if you turn your center true running it is fine. Using a center is the most firm set up. ;{)------

[@67fletch]

is this a english class or a machinist video.

[@TSKseattle]

But the scale is a "Vernier" (VER-nee-er) Scale, not "ven-EAR". I've always written off to that your folksy regional flavor. (I know, you're really a transplanted west coaster)