SHOP TOOLING . SET TRUE LATHE TAILSTOCK CHUCK . Part 1 .

[@jackheath6623]

i love your channel Max, one of my favorite avenues of entertainment. I thought I might be able to help a little on the cast iron vs steel mystery. There are two different quick checks that can be used. the ring test and the spark test. The ring test procedure is where you try to isolate the part from any vibration deadening source and then rap it with something hardened like an open-end wrench or a small ball peen hammer. A piece of steel will ring like a bell. A piece of cast iron will just go clank. And the spark test is where you take a grinder to a unimportant area of the part and hit it. Cast iron will shoot a spark about an inch and a half. Steel will shoot a spark maybe as much as a foot. Hope this helps. Thanks for sharing.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Spark test is in the next video ! Will try the ring test . 👍

[@improviseddiy]

The joy of flood coolant: it never goes where you want it to. I like your concept!

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Cheers 👍

[@hilltopmachineworks2131]

That is some mystery metal. Sure is shiny for cast.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Scraptonium ! 👍

[@donfinch862]

Hey Max, came across from HAL engineering's watched videos. I like the old school turning you do. Subscribed

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks 👍👍👍

[@deanmoser5907]

Watching you with snap gauges is incredible Max.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

No worries , plenty of practice ! 👍

[@WestHamBubbleBoy]

Thank you, Max, for yet another great in-depth video. Im looking forward to watching part two. While on the subject of great videos. I want to thank you for taking the time to record what you do for a living. A bona-fide business that pays the bills and puts beer and food in your belly. What some people may not realise is just how much work goes into making these videos. Getting the right light, the right viewpoint, even the project itself. There are only so many times you can show how to set up or face off, and yet in 90% of all projects, that is exactly what is required. Then, of course, there is the editing. All those hours sat on your arse sifting through hours upon hours of recordings, trying to put together a satisfying video for us, your fans, and all outside of your normal working day. Thank you, Max, for entertaining us all year. I wish you and her indoors a prosperous and healthy New Year. I'll see you again soon, in part two, cobber. 👍😉🍻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks . Have a good one as well ! Cheers 👍

[@StuartsShed]

I really like your set true design approach. 👍 Much better than mutilating the chuck.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Cheers Stuart . Yes , i wanted to avoid chuck modifications as to be able to switch chucks . I might try a similar set up for my indexing head chuck . 👍

[@Just1GuyMetalworks]

Clever design Max. That's why you da man! 😁 Cheers!

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Cheers Chris 👍

[@DonDyarprecision]

You really have your shop looking nice, I know its been a lot of work. The revolving tail stock chucks I used for pre-honed hydraulic tubing. You are the hardest working person I know!

[@RalfyCustoms]

Nice to seeyou here Don, Max is one of my go to channel for techniques, nice bloke, and fellow biker too

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Cheers Don . Take it easy for the new year ! Cheers 👍

[@heinvosloo45]

Hi Max. I have been wanting to make a tailstock chuck but I never got round to it. Now I'm glad I didn't. Your design is much better!

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Will have too see if it works first ! Cheers 👍

[@alandawson2813]

Well hello Max. Yay another awesome instalment. Wowzers that’s was awesome. Happy days from kiwi land.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks 👍

[@KW-ei3pi]

Your sketches are quite nice!

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks 👍

[@grahamsengineering.2532]

I should make one of these when I get time. All the best for the New Year Max.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks Graham . Have a good one ! 👍

[@eyuptony]

Enjoyed the machining once again Max. Nice one. Cheers Tony

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks Tony . 👍

[@RalfyCustoms]

Well g'day Max, and Happy New Year again 🎉 I've kind of lost track 😂, just back from my shop, searching for slot cutting videos, and up this popped, fires lit (-1⁰ here) feet up ready to watch along, happy days, thanks for sharing buddy, I always learn from you

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Lol . Bloody heck Ralfy , -1 is a bit out there ! 👍👍👍

[@FunctionalPrintFriday]

Great vid as always. Great turning shots as well. I hate turning cast iron. Makes such a mess. I've taken to laying out some aluminum foil under the chuck and up to the carriage to make cleanup easier and keep it out from under the carriage. If the chuck or something catches the foil, it just tears vs. turning into a whipping nightmare like a rag will.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

The rags etc work on smaller machines a lot easier ! 👍

[@butchphillips873]

The foil sounds like a good idea, might have to try that next time. Thanks.

[@mudnducs]

It’s SO much cleaner running the lathe backwards (clockwise) with tool upside down! That cast iron goes everywhere!

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Yes , it is most of the time ! Cheers 👍

[@bostedtap8399]

Great design Max 👌. Nicely done on manufacture. Ref splashback, as soon as i saw it, it was definitely wot??, very cramped, needs top return cutting off, and reducing to 30/40 mm, plus maybe quick removal for swarf removal, I think all the production lathes had rear sliding, or pull out backs/trays for the labourer or shop hand to dragout and fork/shovel in the machine shop during my apprenticeship. Material is definitely cast iron, SG type, postive rake cutting by the twist drill, was very much different that negative rake cutting, I wonder if a positive rake turning insert woulg generate long swarf? Regards John from the Black Country in the UK 🇬🇧

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks 👍

[@Rustinox]

Good idea to make it multi function. It opens up possibilities. And indeed, cast iron makes a terrible mess.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

I hate cast iron ! 👍

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

Very nice design Max, That cast-iron was well camouflaged 😬 Can you tell us a little bit about that hardness tester you’re using in the next episode? Looks like a nice unit. Cheers…ATB….

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

No worries Dean .Cheers 👍

[@ianmoone2359]

Yep another interesting one Max, good to get them checked off your list one by one. Looking forward to next instalment. Might be a bit cooler for you tomorrow. 👍👍👍🇦🇺

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

I hope so ! 👍

[@tas32engineering]

The material hardness tester was impressive.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Seems to be a good bit of kit . They posted the rest of it out with the book , case & calibration block . 👍

[@theoutbackshed]

Happy New Year Max. I'm a big fan of set-tru chucks as you m might have seen. I also favour building the set-tru feature into the mounting plate not the chuck. Cheers SteveO

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks . Have a good one as well . I imagine you guys are cooking up there as well ! Cheers 👍

[@tomsing6384]

Nice "Drawing's" -- I'm looking forward to that "Giant Paper Wait" that was on it way to the foundry, Campbell's Soup needed some more cans. Anyway I am holding out for that Restoration, Yes, The Horizonal Boring Machine, you know, there are some jobs that can only be done by that monstrosity!

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Lol , starting on it halfway through this year rain hale or shine ! 👍

[@TedRoza]

G'day Max Yep certainly had the chips with a 1/4" cut. 😅😊 . Now by the time you finish that section you will be able to melt it down for a new billet. 😅😮. Nice piece of machining for the start of 2025 🎉 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Should send the stuff over to Cam at Battler in case he starts casting in iron again ! 👍

[@kentuckytrapper780]

Excellent job max, I've got a Mt 5 bull nose center extra it weighs 25lbs,LOL 😂..if I could get it in a envelope I'd send it to you,lol 😂..

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Lol , shame you did not live just down the road ! Cheers 👍

[@terrycannon570]

I've been wanting to do that to my Clausing 5913 lathe 3 jaw chuck.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

No worries . 👍

[@stevewilliams2498]

Why do people not turn the sketch pad over and draw on the back ? There is no advertising. It is always a nice clean sheet of paper. Happy New Year Max. Don't forget your 3mm rad !.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Lol , i nearly did use the other side ! 👍

[@alanremington8500]

Looking good !!

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks 👍

[@willemvantsant5105]

Hi Max, noticed a double clunck on lathe startup, assume she has a Star, Delta motor starter. Maybe increasing the timer duration will alleviate the secondary clunck when it switches to Delta. From memory you have plenty of power capacity from the mains, deleting the Star, Delta altogether and going direct online might give her more mechanical sympathy without the secondary clunck through the headstock. You would have to pay a pretty penny for that lump of cast iron.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

I will check with the electrician next time he is here . Thanks 👍

[@dutchgray86]

The DSG bed sure makes a good table. I modified the splash guard on my DSG to make it suit my needs better, but I only have the short section behind the chuck in use, about 18" or so, there's a lot more clearance than on you JFMT as the headstock on the DSG is so deep. For an adjust true pipe centre, couldn't you just take one apart press fit a stub shaft into it and chuck that up in the adjustable 3 jaw revolving chuck you are currently making, it would be less rigid than something bespoke but a lot less time to make to see if it would do.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

I need to pipe centre to have as minimal overhang as can be achieved , hence a custom build . Yes , the splash guard has got knobs on it ! Too close & too long ! Cheers 👍

[@nathkrupa3463]

Great work sir ❤😊❤

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Cheers . 👍

[@frankerceg4349]

Thank you Max!

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Cheers 👍

[@dperfetti1]

Max, Can you give me some information about your hardness tester? I like it and it looks very handy. Thanks, Doug

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

It is a Chinese copy of a Leeb . Found on ebay .

[@SepticWhelk]

Was that casted bit as bright as it looked on camera ? The stuff I work with ( tractor parts ) is mostly sort of dull grey .

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Yes , bright & porous . Maybe it was heat treated . Not the usual . 👍

[@Barnzeys]

Would that material of the outer shell be ductile cast iron? My understanding is it produces chips like that when drilled.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Ductile curly swarf will crush in your fingers easier than this stuff . That is not to say that this is not some form of ductile . 👍

[@Barnzeys]

Cheers

[@chadstrand7868]

thanks for the video

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

No worries 👍

[@johnlee8231]

My first reaction to seeing your back splash is modify the area arouind the chuck by chopping the back and adding some height but using the back half as a shelf to hold some tooling? Just my 2 cents.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

It will be getting modified , but not to hold tooling ! On larger machines you never want to reach over your job to get something . Cheers 👍

[@greglaroche1753]

Hi Max, thanks for the video. I noticed you were using the new Iscar tang grip parting tool. What do you think of it? Was it expensive? Was it worth the cost?

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Not expensive & well worth it . I found them way cheaper to buy direct from an Iscar sales rep than on Ebay or anywhere else , and you know it's not a Chinese knock off . 👍

[@chuckbeckley7894]

It is so much easier to throw a rag over the ways to save all that fine grit from getting underneath them.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

On a smaller lathe , yes . 👍

[@tomeyssen9674]

Looks like Durabar?

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

It machines with a very shinney but crap finish . 👍

[@butchphillips873]

G'day Max, Who did you get the Beetle TracTractor from please? Hope your new year is a prosperous one. cheers, Butch.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

My local welding supply . Hampton's in Malaga . 👍

[@butchphillips873]

@@swanvalleymachineshop Thanks.

[@TrPrecisionMachining]

Good video friend Max..go go 2025

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks . Yes , go 2025 ! Cheers 👍

[@rival7005]

Looks like extruded grey cast...durabar or similar

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Dumpster special blend ! 👍

[@rival7005]

@swanvalleymachineshop 🤣🤣aka free..always the best type ,,happy new year..wishing you all the best for 2025 in the shop and on the channel

[@be007]

i hate cast iron, its nice to work with but a killer for the machine. cheers ben

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Bad stuff ! 👍

[@2secondslater]

Looks like it could be malleable iron

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Mystery iron ! , Dumpster special ! 👍

[@Randysshop]

Happy new year Max. Very interesting project for sure, What was that tool you were using to check the material with? Happy 2025 Cheers

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

The hand held hardness tester . Look up Leeb hardness testers on ebay & the cheap ones as my one is will pop up . Cheers , have a good one as well ! 👍

[@paulhammond7489]

You must have better stocked dumpsters down under ;) Could that be a Malleable Iron? Looks to machine similar to materials we used years ago when I was a young chap

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Maybe , but not sure . It is pretty porous . 👍

[@mathewritchie]

The perils of dumpster metal?

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Hit & miss ! 👍

[@Etol1963]

Hi Max. Are you sure this is going to be ok? When I look at the drawing of the outer ring I see two sections connected by a tiny bit of material. Also two sharp corners in the same plane with only 11mm cast iron between them. Aren't you afraid its gonna crack at that point and the chuck comes flying of?

[@Etol1963]

O bugger. I wrote the comment before I watched the rest of the video.🤭🤪

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Lol , it happens ! 👍

[@markdresser8592]

I thought that piece looked like a die for stamping saucepans? But cast iron...

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Any body's guess ! 👍

[@noodles7011]

thst cast is a bit "hows it goin" hey?

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

That is for sure ! 👍

[@Canajaf]

Sempre a parlare...

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Cheers 👍

[@mcgama88]

Hi Max and Channel viewers. Nice to reach 2025. M

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Thanks 👍

[@mikewestbrook2319]

Thanks max

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Cheers 👍

[@jdmccorful]

Thank Maxi! I was wondering if you could talk more about the electronic instrument you were using in the beginning of the video. Its use , manufacturer and calibration to maintain. Enjoying the education.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

No worries . I will try & remember . I have to get a calibration block for it . 👍

[@jdmccorful]

@@swanvalleymachineshop thank you!