1940 Monarch 16 W Lathe Tour

[@hansmuller9121]

Hello Samuel, you did a great job. Given the material thickness, you can run up to 1200 revolutions. If you take very little off the final cut, you will get a very smooth surface. One thing I don't understand is why do you have the cross slide at such an angle? We always had it standing parallel to the bed, except when I wanted to turn a cone then I adjusted it. And when cutting threads, 1 line was always put in front of each cutting process. Greetings from Berlin

[@samuelwiltzius]

I think what you are calling the cross slide is the compound on my machine. It’s at a 45 for fine adjustment currently. No real reason to be at this angle, I just have it that way from playing around threading and left it. The machine tops out about 600 RPM unless I overdrive the motor with the VFD, which I probably won’t do simply because it wasn’t originally designed to do so - though it probably could.

[@ferrywobma1836]

Hi Samuel, I enjoyed watching all 6 episodes. I was a bit confused in part 2, where at 0:22 you suddenly see the text "part 3: painting"? Also in part 6 you are, I think, one of the first KZbin operators to explain the operation of all levers and their relationship to each other, great. Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@samuelwiltzius]

Thanks! And good catch, it should say “part 2: painting” - that’s my bad. Too late to fix it now. I’m glad someone liked seeing what all the levers do. It took me a while to sort it all out, having never used a metal lathe before, and I was fairly excited to have just figured it out.

[@juyfjgfjhgfjugf4702]

the lite is a good idea

[@tuck1963]

Nice job!!!!!

[@MegaRiffraff]

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