Making a Mini Lathe Mystery part.

[@thomasnewcamp5563]

GM flasher button

[@SteveSummers]

Good job 👏 👍 You nailed it

[@RoyBlumenthal]

​@@SteveSummersAnd what is a "GM Flasher Button"?

[@JamesThomas-gg6il]

It's for the emergency or 4 way flashers on a GMC but it is a very common type of button usually located in the steering column.

[@tonyrmathis]

Thank You! That would've been stuck in my head like a name I couldn't remember for the rest of the day if you hadn't said it.

[@garymallard4699]

​@@RoyBlumenthal did you play? with the girls growing up?? while us boys watched dad repair everything?? not that that is weird. .🇨🇦🤓🤙

[@angelarichards3588]

Aluminium. Thank you Steve all the way from England ❤❤

[@silasmarner7586]

Aluminum.

[@TomokosEnterprize]

Missing you this weekend my friend. This throws the whole weekend into a tizzy, LOL. Hope to see you soon.

[@keithbaker8212]

Push button release for big umbrellas most likely less likely for a chair folding maybe for a walker

[@steveg4iwr]

Good to hear you speaking English. Aluminium 🤣🤣. Steve UK

[@johnnyguthary2724]

You see? There are some Americans that are bi-lingual!😀

[@Paul-FrancisB]

The translation into the King's English is much appreciated 😂 🇬🇧

[@musicbro8225]

It's those little things that make you feel welcome here :)

[@kennethdong8490]

4 way flasher button. i have a freebie former high school shop lathe and appreciate your work.

[@goboyz8016]

I think you got it. I swore it was a release button on a panel but I think you're right.

[@chesterfield7770]

We all hate that little plastic things that break . Well done . Nice B.O.M. sticker on the toolbox too .

[@dockerjade]

As an auto tech, I knew what it was as soon as you showed the broken pieces of plastic. I didn't realize you hadn't said what it was at that point.

[@dougmarkham1919]

Finally below 110 out here in Phoenix. Wearing a Parka today as it is 71 and cloudy. Always love the varied content and the laid back way of presentation. Thanks for another great one.

[@luketalkin5000]

That the work my little 6” Atlas can handle. Thanks for sharing. Would be sweet in brass.

[@sblack48]

I’m in a part of Canada where winters are tough so ya, 32F is a warm winter day. Your summer temps and humidity in Kentucky would kill me. If there’s no snow on the ground I’m generally too hot. It’s all about what you are acclimated to. Oh and the mini lathe is the gateway drug to machine tools. Mine gateway was a taig, which is a less capable machine - no power feed.

[@johnwilleford7715]

It's cold where I'm too! I start wishing for summer about the first of November.

[@yambo59]

Yep, I grew up in the 60's and 70's (im 64) and rode in as well as drove many GM cars with this same little button, dont remember ever breaking one though, but it wasnt used all that often either.

[@mattmanyam]

I suspect it broke because the plastic "aged/oxidized"...

[@noelhenderson7337]

I started down the hobby machine rabbit hole with a mini lathe. I probably spent more time modifying it than I did actually making stuff with it. When I got my bigger lathe, a South Bend 9A clone made in Australia, I sold the mini but I wish I'd had the room to keep it. It was really good for making small parts.

[@artshaw6962]

Since you need to make two of them, I think it might be a pair of release buttons for something that retracts or folds. Maybe the foldimg handle of a lawn mower.

[@johnlennon335]

It's for a pin-ball machine!

[@Dudleymiddleton]

Good day Steve! First time I heard an American guy say alum-in-i-um! lol take care from the UK Cambridgeshire fens!

[@crichtonbruce4329]

Great to see a new post! --20c here in North Ontario with about 1&1/2 ft of snow on the ground.

[@Brad26843]

Looks like a 4 way flasher for older gm products. My quess would be for 1 for each of the 2 square body truck 4 way flasher column switch

[@kentpanter2044]

Thanks so much for the great video. I grew up on a ranch in the Never Summer Range in Colorado. Most 4th of July was celebrated in the snow. I am now in my 80’s and live in San Diego - have had enough of cold and snow! Spent part of last week re-watching the workshop repair - really enjoy those videos. Still laugh at when you “locked” the key inside the shop! Remember safety third behind fun and educational.

[@Hoaxer51]

I really liked the shop rebuild videos also, that was a great series and I looked forward to next episode every week. I enjoyed the truck rebuild too, I’ve always been a gearhead so that was right up my alley. I wish they would have showed the big one ton pickup with a little more detail although some viewers are more interested in the machining part of these videos, so I understand. Variety in these videos has to appeal to more people but you have to keep your base happy.

[@SteveSummers]

😁 I kept forgetting those keys.

[@fredericramsey3688]

Very interesting. Great video..

[@surveywaters]

Thanks for the morning entertainment, its an emergency flasher button for the trucks. Miss the good Saturday videos. Hope the family is doing well.

[@bubashalom8274]

Very clever.

[@randythomas8589]

Thank you Steve for another great video i have my shop built now but no heat yet and im in Oklahoma this past week has been freezing lol

[@woodndrum303]

Steve, another great video, thanks. I like seeing someone still striving for the best quality finish appropriate to the part. It's good to see quality work done on a $600 machine and not using a CNC setup that's out of reach for most folks. I love your hound, and I always search out your nature-spotting video at the end. I have no idea what you made, but I enjoyed the journey almost as much as if making the part myself! Thank you.

[@goboyz8016]

Nice work. It's the button release on I want to say a tool box or a panel on the side of a truck, tractor or generator access panel. I just can't picture the panel though. I want to say the side of a work truck or welding truck. You would push the button to release the hatch or panel to the tool storage panel maybe? I just can't picture where though.

[@bubashalom8274]

Sounds fascinating

[@nathanweese3812]

Good morning Steve and fellow Steve watchers. One of my favorite weekly views. Who wouldnt have a bear with this guy, hes great.

[@davidstansbury3204]

Dang it I drove so many GM trucks back in the day. I should’ve guess it. Thankfully for your time and knowledge, your neighbor Dave in Louisville

[@waynep343]

The gas station owner i worked in the repair shop called me at 1am. Get to the station right now. I jumped in my massively loud big block chevy powered 66 GTO and sped over. Reached into his 79 eldorado and grabbed that whole hazard flasher knob assembly and tugged on it to turn off the hazard flashers. The owner said top off your car with premium and have a good night. Premium was like $1.28.9 a gallon. Nothing like an early morning cruise to santa monica beach . Down to LAX to watch the planes take off and land. Seems like yesterday. But it was 42 years ago

[@garth849]

I'm with you on cold weather, I'm a bit south of you here in TN and it was 2° F this morning! No thanks. BTW, I'm sure you know this, but for viewers that's a "right hand" cutter. I know, I've always thought it seemed backwards, but that's how our predecessors named them! Thank you, and keep it going.

[@llapmsp]

Great little project. It is an emergency flasher actuating button on General Motors cars and trucks. It mounted on the side of the steering column.

[@bcbloc02]

Sure a lot better weather this week than last!

[@SteveSummers]

Yeah Buddy, we were in the deep freeze last week. I was lucky to keep the pipes from freezing 🥶

[@bcbloc02]

@@SteveSummers None of mine froze this time but I did have to go thaw my neighbors one day. Fortunately they didn’t break.

[@TomokosEnterprize]

Thanks a bunch for today my friend. That is a fun one.

[@Bluswede]

Thanks so much for the video!...you guys with your big machines have taught me so much about how to think and do on my scale of 'work'! I owe All'Y'All an immense debt! Lovin the little lathe!...I have a Sherline that's made a bunch of brushless model airplane motors, along with all kinds of other very precise, tiny, widgets and gee-gaws! Like you said...brass and al-you-min-yum are its playground. 12L14 steel makes nice, soft, bits of 'tooling'...and anything harder...well...Did I mention that she really does well in al-you-min-yum?! Ooohh! That was quite the conversation your tool had with the workpiece! Reminds me of the many I've heard! Nudging the Sherline's limits is NOT rewarding at all! I get stuck a lot in situations like that pocket you are making...not enough torque to get under the frequency, and not enough power to feed through or get over the top. You just gotta put another twist in the earplugs and sit there! I've found out many times just how good those 1/4" Chinesium Carbide bits are when they chirpin' like an angry chipmunk! {PLINX!}

[@yambo59]

Love Cora shes a sweet dog - nice video of her, shes got her very own woods and creek to frolic in and a nice warm home with good food love and care to go with it - shes really got a nice life at her "summers home" - lol

[@Hoaxer51]

Life’s good! Lol

[@goptools]

Hi Steve. I have to admit that although I've seen that part 100's of times, I didn't recognize it out of its natural habitat. Nice little bit of bling for the square bodies!

[@redelliot1]

did appreciate the nod to your UK watchers at the beginning - also BOM sticker 👍

[@spehropefhany]

Always nice to see the odd 'basics' video that doesn't require $100,000 worth of specialized machinery and tool and die maker skillset. Cheers!

[@LostAgain1970]

Steve is good at that. That is why I am a fan of this channel.

[@doingstufforatleasttrying4843]

Top of the steering column… nice job…

[@tarmaccowboy4939]

When I had my mini lathe I found engaging the lead screw half nuts (without the lead screw rotating of course) then use the compound for advancing the tool. This gave a bit more of a rigid set up. Also bringing the tail stock up against the carriage and locking it (no tooling in it of course) helped too. Just some thoughts.

[@briantaylor9266]

I do the same with my mini lathe to fix the carriage quick and dirty. When I need to actually lock it, I added a clamp to clamp the saddle to the ways. Plenty of videos on KZbin on ways to do that, all of which are well within Steve's capabilities.

[@martinconnelly1473]

I was thinking a simple plate resting in the space between the carriage and the headstock would also give a hard stop to the carriage so that pressure on the handwheel would just be a case of keep the carriage against that plate. A similar thing could be done between the carriage and a locked tailstock. Add a screw if you want some adjustability.

[@timnofer1844]

4 way flasher button. Nice! We have snow in Hells Canyon!

[@ronwhite6719]

Mornin' Steve, Nice work on the flasher button and working on the mini lathe.

[@watahyahknow]

looking at the tiny nub left on the grooving tool for the spring pocket i wonder if it had been eazier to solder a toolsteel pin to a piece of square and cut that down to the cutter , because its round theres allready quite a bit of relief once you ct it intoo a halfround

[@bekar_au]

Nice to see the @BadObsessionMotorsport sticker in the frame :)

[@haydenc2742]

Pretty cool on the little mini lathe..love seeing em being used! Keep em coming!!!!

[@PSUK]

Cheers Steve from Dorset, UK👋 (Al-u-min-ium 😂)

[@jimliechty2983]

More specifically ... A emergency or 4 way flasher button.

[@Ron_EZ]

Cora in "Supervisory Mode" 🤣🤣🤣

[@wyattgroshong8126]

Made one of the same for my 93 truck with some contour lines that match the base to my steering wheel and transfer case knob

[@stephenlesbos6208]

Your content is always superb Steve. Big (work safe) love from the UK 😽

[@jobos98]

Great Video. Awesome parts..

[@MrValhem265]

Aluminium. Thank you Steve all the way from Austraya

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

Nice little project Steve, hope the weather warms up soon. ATB.....

[@russelledgar2292]

On behalf on every non American we appreciate your pronunciation of aluminium 😂

[@silasmarner7586]

Aloooooohhhhminnnnuhhhhhm

[@kaydog2008]

Steve my uncle has the same lathe, but he got sick of the cleaning the chip tray. So he removed it and found a file cabinet on casters of the same size to mount it to. He cut the top where he could fold down the sides at a 45* and spot welded bent trangles in the corners making a funnel so the chips could fall down into the top drawer. The drawer also had a feature when he pulled it out the bottom would open dumping the contents into a tub. Absolute Genius Right!👈👈😮😮🤯🤯Blew my mind when I saw it. 😎😎💡💡Plus he made a quick 2 sided way clamp to stop the carrage from backing off.

[@Biffo1262]

I think I would have been tempted to make it out of black Delrin.

[@scroungasworkshop4663]

Well done on your pronunciation of “aluminium” and welcome to the rest of the world, except Canada of course. I hate being cold and I hate cold weather so of course I live in one of the few places in Australia that regularly get sub zero C temps during winter. I also hate snow and I think the government should ban the stuff. Cheers, Stuart 🇦🇺

[@josephbrannum5746]

Good morning from the north end of Illinois and it's warming up here it' about -1 @ 7;00am . Didn't know it was you were making , But you did a nice job on it and it should out last the truck . stay warm till spring.

[@dandavidson9543]

Chevy flasher switch!

[@mechanicmike2858]

yup i have used that button many times

[@juliussandor4355]

My guess is a high beam / Low beam foot switch for an older car.

[@waynedigby8008]

Mini lathe is a gateway tool, I speak from experience!!!!!!!

[@mdvener]

Looks like a toy compared to all your other machines but seems to really work great for something small. Really nice job. Good to see you this week, miss not watching your videos Saturday mornings, but very understandable. So till next time take care n give the little one a hug.

[@bearsrodshop7067]

Small to Big? This takes me back to 2018. My machinist retired, and said "You need to find another or buy you some shop machines (@@)! A craigslist SB 9c popped up with lots of tooling. Basket case for under 500. A year later (& watching too many YT Machinist like you) after it was fully restored and the new wore off, went back on craigslist, and brought me 2500. That of course bought a nice LeBlond 17 with tons of tooling. But still miss that old SB 9 at times. Great little video Steve, but like you, ready for summer 🙂. Kora made me cold running the creek line,,,Burrrrrr ! Yeepers, another viewer nailed it on a flasher 4 way button 😞Bear.

[@crichtonbruce4329]

I really, really miss my SB 9.

[@michaelwooda9444]

Gm column push pull flasher button.

[@johngordon4425]

Aloom in eeyum 🤣🤣

[@jamesbeen9904]

Somebody may have already said this, But if your lead screw is disengaged, you can lock down the lead screw nut and it works (sort-of) as a carriage lock.

[@pddpup7767]

some of us can take the cold,, I would die in your summer heat and humidity. You seem to handle it just fine.

[@t3cameron]

27 deg. here in nc. I need a little lathe for the turning shop, for small part fabrication.

[@MrSamonkel]

nice 👍👍👍👍

[@gabewhisen3446]

Hope your doing well Steve n family glad to see ya

[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing.👍

[@ssboot5663]

Heck, I first thought it was a window crank handle part for a Chevy square body.

[@JamesDStallard]

Thank you @Steve for having a really good try at pronouncing Aluminium correctly. 😆

[@dutchgray86]

Steve obviously likes the Dickson toolposts I had a lathe with a T2 size on it, liked the toolpost but ended up selling the lathe, still have toolholders kicking around though. Currently back to using a 4 way, until I get around to fitting a B size Multifix to my current lathe. Cheers from Dorset UK.

[@trevelynbrown4444]

The triangle vent window.

[@m.m.7511]

Is your carriage lock the right farthest away bolt on the right of your compound slide?

[@torque350hp]

Aluminium, must sound strange saying it like that. 😁 I heard that and thought to myself, did I just hear that?

[@MyScrapman]

Gm flasher button for sure

[@brianviertel3047]

The flasher button you pulled in your dad’s ol square body along with messing with anything else in the cab as a kid.

[@battleaxefabandmachine]

I knew as soon as you held up the other part. I actually have never had 1 break.

[@keithbaker8212]

Yea we played in it when we were young

[@boblister665]

Taken lots of those off to rebuild steering columms om older GM's

[@Mad-Duk_Machine_Werkes]

Hazzard Lights on a GM steering column!

[@Leddemo]

I did guess it was truck related, but admittedly I had to read the first comment. Never had one of those old square body's.

[@johnforma7367]

GMC Hazzard button on the steering column

[@marcellemay7721]

Hey Steve, great video and little project. I find myself missing you on Saturday morning when there's no video. But, I know that living life is much more important than making a video. Setting proper priorities for the life that is before you, is an important life skill.

[@UpLateGeek]

That's criminally cold! If they ever catch whoever's responsible for such low temperatures, they're going to do some serious prison time! Seriously though, as someone who lives in a place that almost never drops below freezing, even in the deepest darkest depths of winter, I wouldn't be leaving the house if it got that cold.

[@jamesreed6121]

On the front right corner of the saddle there should be a grub/set screw directly above the top of the inverted v-way. If there is, I believe you will find that it is a carriage stop. The only problem I can determine is that it will lift the carriage a small amount. I have yet to measure the amount of lift on my carriage. I made on upgrade to my mini lathe that I really think is a big improvement. There is a kit that reduces the RPM of the lathe by quite a bit. The main benefit I have found with this kit (two slotted pulleys and a belt) is that I can part mild steel. Good to see what can be done with the mini lathe. KOKO!

[@endemiller5463]

Is it a LIKE button??? Press here!!! I did. God Bless

[@joshpilant2315]

Hazard light button on the steering column of your C10!

[@joshpilant2315]

My bad, looks more like a K10.

[@Uncleroger1225]

Happy Saturday Steve, Cora, and Grits! Very inovative tool design. As always, innovative, informative, inspiring. Thanks for sharing to this 1 degree subscriber in Michigan.

[@valkman761]

Where I live, -5 to -10 celsius is cold as it often comes with wind.. when it's -20 or below, it actually becomes quite manageable, but all vehicles suffer from those and it can really be dangerous if you get stranded and you forgot to put proper clothes on.

[@Nf6xNet]

I didn't recognize it until you showed the turn-it-off collar. Then I recognized it in a few seconds! I like your upgraded one. So, how about an aluminum collar for it, too? :)

[@dr650john]

Machinist show: using a tool to repair itself; for which we had to make a tool using a few other tools. Nice

[@alasdairhamilton1574]

Steve, why didn’t you use the other end of the parting off blade to make the pocket tool, would have been less grinding work? Would have given you more time to spend with your grandchild ❤👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@115533662244]

It’s 38 degrees centigrade today tomorrow it is expected to be 40 degrees in Australia 🇦🇺 that’s 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Nice swimming weather. ps. Love your videos keep up the good work 😊

[@1pcfred]

It don't get that hot here. But we got humidity that'll make you feel like you're in a sauna. When you walk out the door it's like someone threw a hot towel on your face.

[@WreckDiver99]

Thanks for the comedy relief. LOL..."It's cold". Yep...I live in the Detroit area. Saw the devil the other day and I asked "What are you doing here?". He said "for some reason the temperature dropped in h3ll, and I need some more brimstone to stoke the fires". He went on to say he didn't understand why this was happening. I told him "The Lion's one the division, and the Lion's also won the first round of the playoffs". He said "I don't think there is enough brimstone around...it has been said that h3ll will freeze over if the Lions win the superbowl". LOL... That said, I looked at my jacket today...it sighed when I walked by to go outside. It's still above 0, so, as the Phil Collins album said "No jacket required". :) Have a great week Steve, and enjoy that grandbaby. This is the time before they get all independent and tell you how life should be (as my 16 year old boy tells me everyday).

[@timothybryan5113]

I find it amazing how fast you can turn out a part on that mini lathe. Might I suggest de-caf coffee?