Wednesday Catch Up 24 . DIY morse Taper Centre Drill Holder

[@tomt9543]

I retired in June 2020 after 41 years welding for the railroad. Had all these grandiose ideas of endless “free time”! Ha! I’ll tell you in advance, you need to be prepared to defend that time, and it sometimes takes being brutally honest with people, but if you don’t, you’ll find yourself wishing you had kept working! Just being honest here! If you don’t enforce your rules from day 1, you’ll find yourself with less free time than when you were working! Family, friends, church, they all look at it as “their” duty to fill all those free hours!

[@mechaform]

Dad said basically the same thing after he retired. I’m already bracing for it.

[@larrythompson2967]

I agree, retired 11 years ago, less time in my shop now than at any time in my adult life?

[@lagunafishing]

Machinist don't retire John, never. They just find more interesting things to do in their garage. One of the most important jobs is to extend the garage and buy more stuff lol

[@billdoodson4232]

Planning have knocked me back on two houses for permission to extend the garages. Have pulled out of the sales. All we want is a 1,500 sq/ft bungalow with a 1,000 sq/ft garage.

[@GeoffHome-u6r]

So true ✅

[@Jestey6]

And then spend many interesting hours looking for them.

[@GeoffHome-u6r]

@ So true 😂

[@AndrewMoizer]

@@billdoodson4232I always have said I want a 4 car garage with attached house!

[@christophercullen1236]

I see your shop a bit cleaner since your wife and daughter visited amazing did there catch some thing !

[@tates11]

Safety tip. Never have the ends of a length of abrasive cloth closer than 90 degrees apart.

[@normshafer2243]

All the best in your future semi-retirement John! 😊

[@nutzaboutnature1738]

John, I absolutely love the black and white photo of you and Debs at the end... she is really busting a gut laughing, and you have a smirk, like you just farted or something,,, :)

[@RalfyCustoms]

Happy days John, I saw Mr Pete make these a few years ago, and made a couple up for both my lathes, I did anneal the shanks but as you showed it's not strictly needed, have a great one mate

[@TERRYB0688]

Cheers John, wee project in the workshop 👴🏻👍

[@WildBoreWoodWind]

Great idea, I’ll be off to all my local car boot sales looking for buggered MT2 drill bits - 👍🏻👍🏻

[@RockerMark]

Something that even I could have a go at! Well done John and fingers crossed for the subscribers.

[@FrontSideBus]

Regarding lathe safety... I had heard about an incident in Russia where an operator was reaching over the spinning chuck and was pulled into the lathe which then proceeded to deposit him all over the workshop. There is CCTV footage online which I did actually watch out of morbid curiosity and all I can say is I wish I could unsee what I saw...

[@machinists-shortcuts]

Handy to be able to hold morse tapers in the headstock. I assumed you were going to hold the drill in the headstock and the blank in the tailstock . 😊

[@marley589]

Too easy lol. When you can take the heavy chuck off and add all those adapters.

[@retromechanicalengineer]

Gtrat stuff John. Best of luck for the 100,000.

[@Jan_Raap]

Thanks. A nice easy project that can be done in the evening after work. It is on my to-do list.

[@Englandforever001]

Top shelf as always,a nice little project for a newbie like myself and more tooling the better especially when its cheap Considering the rate our pockets are on shakedown nowadays thanks john 👍

[@carlwilson1772]

That was a good video.

[@markhodgson2348]

That's a great tip

[@dutchgray86]

Certainly a useful tool to make if you're trying to push your lathes between centers capacity to the maximum. Good for those with smaller machines.

[@leerogers6423]

Tidy little job . I have made similar tools for my Drummond with an MT1 tailstock. Reducing an MT2 down to MT 1 ,or 3 to 2 is much easier than you might first think, maybe you could demonstrate John?

[@markellis6886]

Always learn something from this channel. Thank you.

[@tsheritageengineering]

Don't know how I had time to go to work! Always plenty of machining to do.

[@bantampop3532]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@JohnVCarey]

Thanks John for the reply

[@sheilabray1620]

That lead hammer of yours still needs re cast

[@Jestey6]

Hi John. You mentioned that your friend made the MT 2 & 3 taper cleaners. I’ve had a look online and found a couple to 3D print, but they don’t look half as good as the ones you have. Do you know if he still has the files that he used to print them. Cheers Noel

[@kentuckytrapper780]

Great video John, keep'um coming...

[@Birdyk1]

John, do you know where your friend got the 3d printer file from for the cleaners.?

[@thomaswilliams]

Thanks John.

[@ianv7902]

nice one👍

[@johnc6339]

Lovely job❤

[@JohnVCarey]

Hi John great videos Just A question what is the taper on the adapter you use in the lathe when the chuck is removed

[@doubleboost]

It came with the lathe . 4 .5 morse taper to 3 more taper .

[@glennmoreland6457]

Good 😐🇬🇧

[@markellis6886]

How old are you John ?

[@doubleboost]

66 next month I thought getting old would have taken longer

[@markmossinghoff8185]

From 66 to 77 in the blink of an eye. ​@@doubleboost

[@AndrewMoizer]

@@doubleboostI’m a few months older than you and your comment is all too true! I have no idea how to be this age. I recall my Dad saying, in his early 80’s, that “every morning when I wake up I feel like I’m 18, … until I try to move!” My Grandfather also once said the “retirement’s the best job I’ve ever had, the only problem is that most of the time I’m so busy I feel I need an assistant.” I’m looking forward to seeing what you get up to.

[@paulmorrey4298]

Thanks John