I know I know right we actually made a promise and kept it, that puts these two lad's a step up there somewhere, LOL. Have a great day and thank you for always being here (warm support) we know this because your name is so unique Mr. Carpathian. Lance & Patrick.
Gary? fellow RUclipsr. Thank you for the warm words, we love the machine in this Part 1 there will be a part 2, making the idler pulley and some of the missing standard gears and might have a part 3 this will be us showing the completed line of attachments and accessories that make up a completed kit form the factory for that special lathe, that is going to be like being in a candy shop to us both, so sweet, hope you can join us for these. Once again thank you s much for sharing a thought. Lance & Patrick.
We are really, we mean really really happy to be back and to return to such a caring and kind group of people like yourself this all means the world to us. We never stopped working the whole 18 months in fact we probably got more work done during that time it defeated our purpose of being a sharing pair in rural desert town, so we are thankful to be so well received, thank you again and thank you for joining us, Lance & Patrick.
Yes and hi 624Dudley, we think now 624Dudley that the event made the rest of the world know how it is we Patrick and Lance already live our lives as hermits that travel not more then say 700 miles annually total but reminder that way and this lifestyle is all by choice our personal choice, however that said, that global event was not a personal choice not something we wish upon others. We sure hope you are doing well and we are both glad to have you here for Part 1 of what might become Parts 2 and maybe 3 depending on the amount of efforts remaining here on this G. Boley lathe project. Thanking you again for the very kind words they matter to us here so very much. Lance & Patrick.
Hi train man, you are the flat stone man. Did you know we use those more then we ever thought we would, you make GREAT flat stone sets Steven and we could not have done some of our rebuilding work without those stones from you and Vernon, we will not ever forget winning them. Patrick says hello and remember in our next video we will be asking viewers friends and the like to simply enter to win this great USA made precision gift and patriotic gift we have bought as our first ever giveaway Steven. Your friend in the California desert Lance & Patrick.
Hehe, that hair it is really Lance just reaching screaming out, as you might not know we cut our own hair so we can buy more tools and machinery for the shop, this is true so why did he stop cutting the hair, it is actually Lance writing so it was time for a change good or bad it us, we are too compliant for all these years of cutting our own hair for almost 20 years if the memory is doing well. We thank you for stopping in and sharing these kind words. Lance & Patrick.
Hi fellow RUclipsr Doug is what we have written down thinking that is right, we are happy you stopped in shared some kindness towards us, we are thankful to have you as we love those machines a lot and are happy you enjoyed watching us work on them. We love being back after 18 months away we never stopped working only stopped filming to wrap up a lot of projects in a shorter amount of time. Stay well and thank you again. Lance & Patrick.
You know what lukeissobad, we actually missed you and the others more, you see, we live so rural only drive around 700 miles a year total for both of us, so this social networking thing is our only true outlet, unless like we did for the past mostly 28 years and the last more resent 18 months just stayed busy rebuilding machinery and tools for our shop and not sharing i.e. no buddy knew anything about us or our workings), we need to be sharing. We are back and we are also all caught up with the open efforts around this great Workshop. Cannot thank you all enough for the warm return and welcomes, we thank you so much, Lance & Patrick.
We agree our fellow RUclips creator, we think these two machines are amazing and they each came out so well considering that one is a very low 4 digit serial number while the other is a 5 digit serial number. We actually cannot wait until we share the machines accessories / attachments having them all and in great like new working order that is going to be a really great show in our opinions. Thank you for being here with us we are happy for the kind words. Lance & Patrick.
Hello Yuchol, had to look that spelling up we do watch you on ARW live each week when you are on there as well we are so happy the bond you and Randy have casted forged that is great he is a GREAT man hands down a wonderful man to us here. Thank you for the warm welcome fellow RUclipsr. Lance & Patrick.
Paul thank you, we are very glad to be back sharing though we actually never went anywhere just got into too much work and got about 80% caught up on all the projects we had pending, thank you coming by and sharing. Lance & Patrick.
Ah a show could not be complete if not for a kind set of words from our friend MrShobar, thank you for stopping in to share. We are both happy to be back, happy to have acquired a lot more machinery and tools to grow our abilities and yes share even more things to come. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Janek, thank you for the kind welcome, we are really happy to be back. We were gone for 18 months and while we continued working, truthfully, we actually got more work done because we did not need to worry about sharing and well we also went a bit wild and bought some new machinery and tools here so there is a lot more to share going forward, stay well and thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
Lance & Patrick, Great to have you back on our screens and what a fabulous project to return with. Looking forward to many more episodes... Take care. Paul,,
Hello to our kind friend Paul. We thank you for your warm private words send to us today they meant a lot to us both truly they do. We are happy you enjoyed the show and we sure enjoyed making this Part 1 of 2 or 3 depending on the amount of work this finalizing presents us to show her working utilizing each of her factory accessories. There really are so many, many we never new existed Paul, it is truly amazing to us to have this fine piece of German engineered precision in our Workshop Paul. Thank you again for the support of our efforts, these many kind words we read keep these two hermits alive and kicking. lance & Patrick.
We are even more glad then you might be, we love this work so much but the time had come to get some of the projects completed and far as rebuilding and refurbishing goes. We also realize the great feeling we both have when we read from you that we were missed and we in fact are not forgotten, we thank you dearly and we feel both equally blessed here Scott, Scott is Lance's middle name. We took 18 months off of filming but not off our work this is all we know and do and what we can now do and perform here is greatly improved meaning there is so much more to offer and share going forwards. Thank you again, Lance for Lance & Patrick.
Shawn we thank you how nice to have a visit from a fellow RUclipsr welcoming us back we are so happy after 18 months to be back, this means a lot to us both, we have done so much work but did not film or share it, we are now mostly caught up and ready to share share share. Lance & Patrick.
Hi hey we watch RUclips shows and love that "Pay up or we will take it away" police show on our tele, you all call them the high court enforcers, it is the best. Hi Russell thank you for coming in for a visit from across the pond, hoping all is well for you there. We are more excited to be back then we are letting on we actually miss you all the comments make our days and nights allowing us to make friends to share with like yourself. We both thank you sincerely Russell. There will be a lot of future shows now that we are nearly all caught up around both the Workshop and the Machine Shop. Lance & Patrick.
Spring has sprung. Covid is on the run and Lance and Patrick are back to entertain us. Sure is great to see you guys again. The only thing that be better is if Lance would find a barber.
If we lived near a harbor we might acquire barber, but that barber, well that is Lance. We have been cutting our own hair since the early 2000's when we came to the realization that we could buy more tools and machines and save that time wasted in the barber chair plus travel even though around that time the barber was in the same building as we were located within. The issue was the man could not cut Patrick's hair straight always crooked so we have more tools because of that error alone LOL. but true. Thank you for the kind words we hope to do better work as we progress through the remaining months of this 2021 year. Lance & Patrick.
Hi yes it has been 18 months. We sure did a lot of machine work rebuilding work and too too much buying so the shop is more able today then ever as we stepped up our abilities to begin making larger then watch parts sized parts, something we might be able to sell through our channel we shall just have to wait and see. Thank you for returning to see and comment on our return show. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Harold it is GREAT to read from you our fellow RUclipsr friend. 18 months but we never stopped working only stopped filming. We watch you Tom, Randy, Dave others and your rotating guests each week, it is nice to see you all sharing your skills with us all, keep it up and thank you again Harold. Lance & Patrick.
Probably the most awaited event in recent history...A new Active Atom video! So great to see you guys back, and one day the barbers will be open again... 👍
Hi to buy more tools and machinery as we have Lance has been the barber here since the early 2000's reducing our contact with outsiders (we are hermits) and while this affords us extra tool money it also affords to us the extra time needed to refurbish or rebuild each machine and tool we buy, recently we have been buying some new machinery to get us moving towards making our product a bit faster, but not too fast Lorem, we still do not know what it is we are making here hehe. Come back for our gift opening video and enter to win the Made in the USA patriotic gift we will ship it anywhere in the world for free to one lucky winner. Do not worry that tool and machinery hoarder Patrick is not allowed to sign up to win it, so we are safe on that note Lorem. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Dennis, it is our pleasure to have you interesting on our efforts wishing we could share more as we work 7 days a week that filming had to take a back seat with only the two of us here, we will try harder to bring more quality videos soon, thank you again. Lance & Patrick.
So Great to see a video from you Guys The Lathe is Awesome I spent all winter restoring old tools and lately I have been fixing the car and working on the big garden tractor
Hi Jim we know the tractor watched that video cool ride friend from you a 1974 tractor. Reminds us of what car we had in 1974, it was a dark brown 1974 Chevy Corvette with a 454 V8 engine in it, had to jack the engine up to change the spark plugs, it was an automatic we sold it to a man in Australia and that was what I remember was how fast that car was, Lance was 11 Patrick was 7 meaning that was one year before we met one another Jim. Thank you for the kind words. Lance & Patrick.
Hello James working and in action to follow Parts 2 and maybe Part 3 as in Part 2 we will be making the gears that are missing and we have to make the idler pulley for the project board build, so there is that machining to see before the G. Boley can share her skills of making great parts. Than you. Lance & Patrick.
Hi yep a secret to share, we miss sharing with you all even more then you miss us, to us this is true, 18 months of making parts , adding machinery and tools plus continued machine and tool rebuilding and what we got caught up, so we can begin filming and sharing again. Thank you for being here with us, Lance & Patrick.
Well done, gents. I haven't seen one of your videos in ages. I am thrilled that the little Boley will be well cared for. It has found a great home. I am kind of surprised that it has a micrometer tailstock with the taper rather than collet holding. I look forward to seeing it cutting threads. Welcome back!
Hello James, a fantastic question you present because it is likely others will have this very or similar question and might find your answer if they are looking. You are right we know them to come with the collet holding tail stock and that is preferred here as well, but this one the rare one, built on camera came with what the buyer must have order and requested it to come with, we however did buy and have the collet holding tailstock for it along with all those accessories and attachments we will be sharing in Part 3 when we get to show all of these part working on the new lathe project board. Thank you again for watching and sharing your question it is a good one. Lance & Patrick.
Oh no you commented before watching we going to tattle tell on you to the comment police at RUclips, they are watching us all you know, LOL. We hope you enjoyed the show and thank you for sharing with us. Lance & Patrick.
Hi and hey, thank you for your kind words. We think the accessories in Part 3 likely will be what we call candy because they are so sweet, we only need to make an idler pulley in Part 2 for the project board and mount it, then we are ready to share the usage of each accessory and attachment for the G. Boley, hope you come back and see this in action we might even make some threads here. Thank you again Lance & Patrick.
You got that right this thing is really small we are so thankful that this rare machine is at a home that can correctly rebuild and maintain it for the future to continue to enjoy, it is a reminder to us both that we are not the machinery and tool owners, we are merely the caretakers for the future generations. Thank you again longcaster, Lance & Patrick.
Hi George, we literally forgot what they look like, we cannot wait we both and you get to see all of the refurbished accessories in action as well as the auto threading feature this is one crazy rich machine with so many attachments, it is just mind boggling to us both the effort that had to have gone into the making and the finishing of these fine components at the G. Boley machine tool factory. Thank you again for the kindness towards us and these fine precision machines and tools George. Lance & Patrick.
Thank you, we do love her, our G. Boley factory made lathe is one of our little rock stars and we love to share with you and others. There is more G. Boley performances by and about her to come, she is going to perform some day in the future and we hope to film it, share it and talk about it in greater length about her and all of her complete set of accessories. Thank you I wantAvote for taking time to share your feelings and thoughts with us here. Lance and Patrick.
Hello Fosdick it is important to fear nothing even returning to RUclips as we just did. We have a lot to be sharing a lot was missed as we needed to get the work done and now we are nearly all caught up and have of course a lot of new and exciting machinery and tools to share while we begin making parts on them finally. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Yves thank you for your kindness, we are glad you like our show part 1 of 2 or 3 depending on things we have to make an idler pulley system for it, a few standard gears that are missing and then we are going to share all of the attachments and accessories in action, that we might name the show candy so sweet it is LOL. Thank you for stopping in. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Peter we are amazed to continue watching your build out of that Gingery mill, it shows that these machines and tools are just endless, you sure enjoy your efforts. Thank you for stopping in, it has been 18 months since we last made a video, the lathes are really neat wait until we share the accessories and the likes it is all like candy so sweet it truly is Peter. Lance & Patrick.
Yes hey hello Chris GREAT to read from you feels like it was but only yesterday we were sharing comments and now we are back and on a mission to bring great shows to our friends going forward, life here is really good and we are wishing this for you equally, and for that these two guys who spent too much money adding things to the shop in preparation for the making of our first product to begin this year still as far as we are thinking that is Chris. Reminder in our unboxing gift video coming up next we offer our first ever gift, it is brand new the latest precision item made right here in the USA and we hope you will come watch us open the 6 packages we mentioned in this video enter then to win this prize. These packages that have been waiting to be opened now for the 18 months since we last filmed must b opened shortly. Thanking you again for the kindness towards us and this fine show. Lance & Patrick.
Super great to see my friends back at it !! Awesome work as usual and those are two wonderful machines !! and Lance rocking the long hair !!! missed you guys ! Joe
Hey you we follow each other all over this Internet thing, someone thought I might be an original member of the 1981 hair/glam metal rock band TESLA who formed in our state capitol of Sacramento California the same state I am a native of. Fun-in a bit with our friend Joe got to love having a Bridgeport Mill expert in the house we both sure are, thank you for being here with us Joe. Lance & Patrick.
Hello our fine finishing and master, fellow RUclipsr and saver of great tools we are happy to have you stop in and welcome us back, having a compliment from you like this is an honor thank you very much we miss being here and sharing we were too busy working and not sharing anything. Wait til you see our giveaway, our first ever it is something done in a way you might appreciate coming in our next show whenever that is. Thanking you again, Lance & Patrick.
Hi Joe thank you for sharing your thoughts with us, we enjoy the comment interaction as our only means of sharing after we release a show. We are happy you like the lathes, wait until we show the attachments and accessories for that rare lathe as it will be both fun to share and interesting learning for us and you. Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
Well said Melissa, very well said indeed Patrick and I are so happy with the results after each machine or tool that we strive to improve, then next one and the next one after that seem to just get better and greater amounts of time depending, this occurs when we begin machining our parts soon we will take our efforts to we hope great and new heights Melissa, thank you. We have joy, so much joy, we think you are able to see in or sharing through these shows we seem to love being able to do. Lance & Patrick.
Hello Dan I (Lance) had two up since 3:30 AM daily Patrick up 6:30 Am Daily. I always have room for another cup, so yes I would gladly join you while you are enjoying our show. Thank you for stopping in saying hello and enjoy the coffee and in fact enjoy this GREAT week it is up to you and us as to how the week turns out. Dan there will be a part 2 or so where we machine and assemble an idler pully assembly for this project board lathe and then say a Part 3 we will share all of those already reworked or refurbished accessories and attachments from G. Boley work on this Lathe and finally we will make the missing thread size gears we do not have for the lathe. Lance & Patrick.
Hi you see, you think we made your day, we must confess it is all of you actually, that makes our day, we know sharing is taking some extra work to provide but we never stopped working towards our projects and one of those is to begin making our product something we still have yet to share. We are thinking those attachment and accessories show should be called the candy shop they are so sweet, wait until you see what all of these can do. Note that the accessories and attachments come after the making of the needed idler pulley system to operate these. They are like new these attachments but we still went through each of the thousands of components that make all of them up it is a real labor of love and we feel it is of important watchmaker historic importance. Thank you so much for stopping in sharing the very warm welcoming and kind words, you made our day. lance & Patrick.
Hi Lance and Patrick. It has been a while and I have missed your excellent videos on RUclips. Great to watch you both in action again! All the best, Norm in Arizona
Hi NORM, we also did a channel intro on the main video page if you like to go watch that one. We are so happy to hear from you knowing you are well is important, you have been with us here since we began this adventure so we are happy to see you again for sure Norm. We will have another video a progress video out this coming week and one more behind it. Right now we have just insulated the garage ceiling to match the walls and we double insolated the garage door as well. It turns out we have enough money left over tp add a smart air conditioning unit to cover this open style rafter garage with plenty of comfort to spare so we will share this in a video shortly. You know what we know Norm, living in the high desert, be it here in California our in your beautiful Arizona, the temperatures can do both a freezer and really heat up and this summer, see our work, near all of it at this time is in the Machine Shop area (garage converted) at not at the already climate controlled Workshop area so we are off to a great start, well Norm that is once we install the air conditioner but the insolation has already helped a lot here. Thank you for continuing with us Norm. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Milan, wow that is a really nice comment and we hope we can be given the chance to make many more of your days, by the way do not forget to enter in the contest, not yet though, in our gift opening video coming up next you will have the chance to win a set of presents we are giving away details to follow, it is going to be our first ever giveaway and the prize is top shelf. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.
I'm really glad to see that you guys are doing well and back making videos. I was worried that something bad had happened and we wouldn't hear from you again. I don't usually leave comments on videos, but you two are some of my favorite people making machining videos!
Hi Paul, we are both fine despite the Lance hair-o-roma, hehe. We are very happy you did break your rule and share your thoughts with us concern about us and such. We remain safe living in a rural desert town and behaving like a pair of old hermits, means that we are like already on lockdown like the rest of the globe was forced into, be it very different for us though, we do this lifestyle by choice and well, to buy more machinery and tools with the money we save, truthfully but we are so happy to have returned we completed so much rebuilding and added so many machines used old and new tools of great precision as well. Know this Paul we are both honored and humbled to read your caring thoughts and best of al your tagging us as one of your favorite makers, that means more to us then you might even realize, we are thankful to have you here and if we may be it digital for now call you our friend. Thank you again sincerely, Lance & Patrick.
Wow! Way to jump back in guys! 😀 What a beautiful little lathe 😍. The shine on that pulley and also everything else lol, is just awesome. I may have to throw mine back on the lathe for a good shine up 😊. Very enjoyable video guys. Glad to see you back. Cheers Lance & Patrick! 😁
Its Chris isn't it? We have been following you a fellow RUclipsr since the beginning of your channel, you have really come a long ways your channel is looking good as well. Thank you for the kind words, that work is all done by hand can you imagine and there are hundreds of accessories to the machine meaning there are 10's of thousands of components making up the entire line of accessories and attachments from the G. Boley company. Lance here I complain doing all these parts Patrick complains fitting them and in the end we forget those efforts and just sit back and enjoy the sweetness of these parts like they are made of candy. Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
Hi fellow RUclipsr and friend Brain. Cantilever is a good name for that style. Those are an overall length bed of 12.00 inches. It is what that the standard watchmaker lathes have, a single mount post to bed leg, if it has two then it is likely 18 inches in length Brian and will have a mounting point at both ends, we call those instrument bed lathes those are more common in our own shop as we make parts a bit over the watch parts size. It is on the instrument length 18.00 inch length and above that a lathe begins to have the thread cutting ability and for that reason this is never found on the watchmaker bed lathe machines like the one has in the show. We watched a visit video of a guy that we also subscribe to that came by your shop discussed your hard work and your shop but until after he greeted the paws of the company boss Baily and that was a great interview the man did with you, we enjoyed it, he really wants that radial drill we think watch out Baily. Thank you for the comment Brian and thank you for being here with us. Lance & Patrick. P.S. We love you Baily and Brian please tell Baily Patrick's cat Tiny too small is turning 25 in September and she is looking good.
Great video guys! It’s so nice to see you back at it again. You both look great! And how you keep everything so clean, neat, and organized Is so impressive to me. Hope to visit sometime soon too. Rochelle and I are now fully vaccinated so we are free to roam the planet again.
Hi friend you are safe here as well x 2 or both here. We make things look cleaner then they are, hey you have watch up here as well running still hehe. Come on up from that fancy valley floor and see the hermits LOL. See you and Rochelle soon and share a great big hug to her from us please. Lance for Lance & Patrick. P.S. We are glad to be back Joel after these 18 months, wait until you see what we added and finished up around here too busy to say it nicely friend.
That is 100% pure geek sexiness, there, gentlemen. I love that lathe and cannot wait to see the next video of your work to complete this project. Liked, Commented. Subbed. Thanks for this, and have a great day!
Hello Richard, thank you for the warm welcome, did you know we actually miss the comments, in fact Lance's Mom and dad enjoy reading them after watching us perform our efforts, thought you might like to know that Richard, because we are very thankful here in part because of yours and others really kind and warm words, it all matters to us. Lance & Patrick.
Great to see you guys back online. Lance - is that COVID hair you have going on there? Mine is about the same sir - just a little thinner. Glad you are back - looking forward to your content.
Hello to the man in Texas, hell storms, tornados, freezer conditions and too many people relocated to your state all at once, we are so happy to read from you as we were hoping you were doing well through all of these events in your state Rick. The hair thing is like this. I Lance have been cutting our hair in-house since the early 2000,s when the hair dresser in our old building kept cutting Patrick's hair crooked and the wait times and the cost it came to be, we could buy more machines and tools if we cut our own hair and we would even have more time to devote to our work each day, so see Rick there you have it, we suffer from a sickness we love our tools way too much LOL. Lovin Levin club member friends, Lance & Patrick.
Awesome video. I would love to see a general "Care and feeding" video for watchmaker's lathes. I recently acquired a vintage Reese 433 lathe, and I need to make sure the headstock is lubed and in good working order, but I really do not know where to begin.
Hi Stan you know it feels so nice to be back, we have accomplished so much in both the Workshop and the Machine Shop and not shared the progress and will now be sharing the end results of the rebuilding of so many machines and tools that we are using to make our parts with, we are so happy to return and be so accepted we even upgraded our opening set area, it is so much more roomy and such. Thank you for your kind words we need that in our lives here. Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom Let's hope the winning Lotto ticket in the envelope hasn't expired! Speaking of expired, are the racing snails in the smaller box still practicing for the Olympics? 🐌🐢🐌🐢🐇
Hot damn, fellers, yer back!! Not that I doubted your promise, but as time went on you can understand a certain . . . reluctance to believe. Lance, your hair! Despite earthquakes and downturns, you are looking like an 80's film star. Patrick, you look like Patrick! So if you want some examples of another Boley watchmaker lathe, let me know. I have a Boley F1, and will send pics if you like. I've had a tough year and STILL have not moved the Levin into the shop Another joint replacement kinda slowed me down, but now I am the bionic man! (That sounds better than the reality). Does this mean you are back in full contact? I have been hesitating to contact, since you've been so busy.
Hi Adam, sorry for the tough times we actually had a GREAT year health and business, we are both very fortunate. We will hold out great positive thoughts for your recovery on your joints those are not fun. Boley F1 that is a REALLY nice machine larger like our Levin instrument models. Sorry you have yet to move your Levin into its place of service as well Adam. Patrick is stable and always remains calm thus always looks like Patrick and well lance that is another story all over the map wild thought sporadic ideas and incredibly focused on the task when at hand that is. Thank you Adam. Lance & Patrick.
Love the Boley ww lathe at the start of this, what lovely thing! Sadly being in the UK I have to import such machines and the import and postage costs are not cheap nowadays!! Luckily I have just found I have a brother who I never knew existed until a few months ago and he is based in the US (Vermont) so he could help me source such lathes and related machines! (Or just move to the US myself?!)
Thank you, that model G. Boley is really neat, being a watchmakers lathe to have that feature is neat to at least be able to share what it is that machine and having all of the factory accessories / attachments of the machine some we did not know you needed until you have them hehe. Lost brother in Vermont lovely place we see though neither of us have been there as that is on the other coast the East Coast Atlantic ocean side, we are on the Pacific here, it is unique to read you have a newly found lost brother you were not aware of that is a really cool surprise, even we are both happy for you here. Are you going to use him as a tool and machine mule importing items to your country'? LOL. We are laughing here as we watch the show in the UK that covers immigration enforcement though our favorite show is the one with the high court riff, collections of debt rulings at her majesties pleasure we are assured. Thank you for sharing of your found brother, that was neat to learn and has us both thinking what if this were to be us? Lance & Patrick.
We know wat a train wreck that guy is, hair well what is left of it is in part how the machinery and tools get paid for se we cut our own hair and have since the early years of the 2000's and it saves us both time and money even removes one more human interaction not related to machinery and tools that is. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Indeed it has been 18 months while we were working away we did little sharing on Instagram but no filming for the most part so it is great to be mostly caught up and now making shows to share again, we actually miss sharing our efforts and most of all, we miss the comment sharing with you and the others here on RUclips, thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Bob, no is the quick answer but and as in life there is always that but moment. We have a goal; it is our museum that while we add to her pretty much each month, we are weak in the securing of the funds that would make that effort a better safe place nearer or own ending (SOMEDAY, no hurry there), so you can know we are making 2 of our own designed and machined in-house limited edition products to sale through our videos and website coming by this years end and our 30th anniversary Bob. That G. Boley we feel is great, we have a few gears to make for her from the master gears which we do have, they are critical in the lathe's importance. This lathe is only one of our machines and the supporting tools in our workshop Bob, we should make a video, well a series as there are too many tools for sharing our tools of the past soon to be 30 years (well coming up on May 03, 2023). We have a question for you? Why do you want this automatic machine? We would be interested in knowing that here as we are also in need of friends, and we like to know more about others like ourselves, those with interests in a common category Bob. We must admit in closing that this one-off G. Boley watchmaker lathe is near the top of our crown jewel (it is however not the top one) in the collection and that is why we should make more sharing videos as this might lead to making us a few new friends along the way, thank you for your interest and thank you for being here with us on this journey. Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom hi, thanks for the reply! I’m finishing up a bs in mechanical engineering, and somehow I managed to get sucked into watch repair and watchmaking over the last few months. I’ll be looking for a lathe soon, and I’m fascinated by the screw chasing one because it’s a weird sort of hybrid between traditional watchmaker’s lathes and larger general purpose lathes. I’ve never seen a power feed on a watchmakers lathe, and I feel that it really adds to the machine’s versatility. I’m also in the process of modeling a watchmaker’s lathe, based on that style, and it would be great to have access to the screw chaser for reference. Is there any possibility you guys might take detailed photos of the parts?
@@bobbobbington1132 Hi as well Bob, great to read you are joining the watchmaker world, and with a bs in mechanical engineering, that will go a long way in making your own path whatever path you pursue knowledge and application are the kings and queens in our world here. Two things will happen now that you are in our (older persons) opinion, you will become a tool and machine junkie as they say, though personally we enjoy the tool and machinery collecting that does come with gaining knowledge in both the running using and maintained and repairs of these fine machines and tools, so we are not junkies we are more care takers taking care of the vintage tools and machines as well as the newer ones not yet (though someday) cares takers of them as well. While we respect your liking the world's smallest known example of an automatic thread chasing lathe it is a very costly endeavor to pursue (not impossible) and it is likely why we have the only known micro example created. A wiser move is to seek the next model or size up that was produced by Schaublin made in Switzerland and there are others that made these larger ones. This lathe the G. Boley is not kept here, it is the only one so it is kept in a secure place to preserve its existence when we are not utilizing it, so for now the images and such are not available other then those in the video, sorry. Please stay in touch we are happy you are here with us as mentioned and please feel free to reach out at any time as we do work in the Workshop area each day though right now, we are uploading a new operating system to our 4 axis CNC micro milling machine in the Machine Shop area, gosh these two guys sure do have fun each day Bob, we really do hope this happiness for you equally. Lance & Patrick.
Haha we will never tell, well this is how we recall it, we just pored them out on a towel from a can and they ended up looking like that Melissa. Patrick actually takes the parts from me separated from other machines or tools and then lays them out meticulously, we never thought how long it takes but betting it takes a while. We have such a fun time doing our work we just get into it and we really do love these components, well its like this, each they are like family or something to us, do not really know that one. Thank you Melissa for stopping in leaving not just one but two comments both of which we will gladly answer as we are so happy to have contact with like minded people, this is all a great thing, take a\care and again thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Djahn, that took a while but yes, we do have an answer to our G. Boley lathe ages not exact (no one we know seems to really know G. Boley serial number dating) but here is what is true. These two machines we have and share within the video you notice are nickel plated, the tools produced from G. Boley in nickel are their first ones (from the beginning). G. Boley looks to have made the lathes later as painted, they began receiving a hammertone green, it is like a light silver green, in fact Djahn we are actually painting (powder coating) two G. Boley parts, they are early but non nickel specialty tail stocks that were painted in this hammertone green and we cannot wait to share these rare accessories with our viewers soon. Djahn, thank you for writing and thank you for sharing your question with us who knows a person may come along and have a better dating of G. Boley machines and accessories to share with us and we can then share with others here as well. Stay well thank you agian for being here with us on this journey, Lance & Patrick.
Woohoo! Active Atom is posting a new video! So glad to see y'all again! The G. Boleys are lookin' gorgeous! (I hope I can get my AWC lathe lookin' that good some day, BTW I decided to mount her on an 18x12 butcher block as well!) I love all the clever innovations on the screw-cutting version! Lance, did you also re-plate those parts when you polished them, or were they already in such good shape?
Hi George, it is nice to read there are others that like the portable work table i.e. butchers block mounting method it. To us it is just that these older machines were made up of the parts application, choices of the machine, motor, lathe bed and such to be all separated like also the idler pulley and counter shaft setups to best allow the matching of the desired machine to the operators desires for optimum performance. It is great you went with the more desired even by these two 12.00" x 24.00" project board they are much easier to lift then the 18.00" x 24.00" ones and often times find a good place to display or store it, the smaller one like yours is. While we do do a mix of our own making for nickel plating the components when required this pair of particular machines were not in the shape needing that level of attention well the counter shaft main pulley is actually striped and ready for re-plating in nickel so there is that part being done an a watchmakers mini caliper as well vintage for the future museum however we have the ends of dust covers screws and some parts on a Derbyshire 850 instrument lathe headstock that are in line right now for nickel plating so we must mix some up use the tools that perform the best heating plates, circulators, lots of chemicals a pH meter reader to control that and such, this will deliver to us the best wear and we selected to do the satin finish as apposed to the popular chrome polished finish. Thank you again for stopping in, sharing your efforts from your own shop and for liking our work here. Lance & Patrick.
I have just discovered your great restoration program and I have just been giving a LORCH KD50 8mm. I repair clocks for a hobby so it’s going to be very helpful to me so I would like to strip it down and re paint and polish it could you please tell me what polishing grit you use to make it so shiny I have a great polishing buff with different mops. Im 85 years old and I have been building Model Steam Engines since I was 19 so if you can help me it would be great. Cheers Doug from Australia.
Hello Roy, glad to read from you knowing you are doing well by to seeing you share here. We are surprised to be so missed, it has been 18 months and while we did continue working and a lot was completed. There are so many new machines and tools we have to share with you all going forward we surely cannot wait to get at the sharing thing again. Thank you for coming to see what it is we are up to, thank you for the very kind words they get us through. Your friend, Lance & Patrick.
Hi Sonny, thank you so much, while she has a few more gears to make she does make great threaded parts for very vintage wrist watches we do love that G. Boley watchmaker's lathe. The oil we use in the Workshop and for machine and tool rebuilding refurbishing is what is known as the finest refined mineral oil on earth, it is from NyOil Made in the USA comes in around 4 ounce or greater sizes we use the red not the blue the difference is the blue is synthetic and the red is the original natural and then greatly refined lubricant, it is really that good we LOVE our NyOil. Thank you for sharing your compliment and for asking a really good question. Lance & Patrick.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to me !!!!!! I absolutely Love your videos !!!!!! Such great stuff and you guys are great !!!!!! Im a beginner watchmaker and am 5 months in. And your videos are very helpful to me !!!!! Im hoping you will be doing more videos !!!!! Ive just gotten my first watchmakers lathe and Im practicing on it daily !!!!!
@@sonnymoorehouse1941 Just remain patient operate carefully and always view others that have more knowledge like we continue to do here at Active Atom. We will be making more videos right now we are making our first design non client hired product, we will begin sharing that in the end of this year. Thank you for sharing Lance & Patrick.
Hi Lance and Patrick, what happens to these lathes? Do they get sold or are they kept for a museum? If they get sold what sort of price would they go for? Just asking because I’ve been looking on eBay and some of them go for a stupid amount of money… Thanks in advance George 🇬🇧
Hello and welcome to Active Atom with is a GREAT question. We rebuild these machines here in house from the ground up having the actual parts materials and paints as well as that of the knowledge to perform these tasks for such a demanding and very precision machine as the Levin & Son name warrants. New and used Levin which is one of the 4 model or so we utilize here making parts for watch movements and timing devices each day it is a real joy when that time arrive as it had in the resent past 2 or 3 years to rebuild these fine machines for a coming 2 or 3 decades. These are used daily some are allotted to the museum, but we have in the coming May 03, 2023 when we turn 30 years old here at Active Atom have never sold but 1 draw bar for a Levin Lathe (that was to a friend of ours for many years) that we had made a half a dozen new ones for our vintage Levin open pulley style lathe to have and utilize for the next 20 to 30 years or so. Levin and Son, the company, has risen the prices too high for us and likely for many (especially these two desert hermits) others to afford as it, the company was sold to a new owner some years back that is when the prices and various other issues began to arise to our attention, see Levin & Son is located about 105 miles into Los Angles California from where it is we are located in the upper Mojave Desert in the state. Thank you, and hey, if given the chance and having the affordability we Patrick and Lance would buy Levin & Son the company tomorrow just so you know our thoughts Fumingzeus. Thank you for being here with us, we are thankful to have you. Lance & Patrick.
Hi mosfet500, thank you for the kind words about our video we love this G Boley Lathe so much and we so want to show it making parts soon. Two oils are utilized around here, one is a general use coating to prevent things like flash rusting and smooth operation on the ways and the like named NyOil the finest mineral oil produced globally. The spindle oil we utilize for this lathe in that video is Mobil Velocite No. 6 available at places like MSC, McMaster-Carr etc. Please stay tuned we have been aways for a bit but are nearing the release of a series of great shows offering up a product we have been making and filming some of. Thank you, Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom Thanks guys, the #6 is lighter than the #10. On my Austrian Maximat lathe the instructions said use Castrol Hyspin AWS 46, that was 40 years ago. I just checked the spindle in that lathe and it's still under a tenth with no gumming, although I do change it out every couple of years. I'll try the Velocite 6 or maybe the 10 as I rarely go above 3k rpms. Enjoy your different perspectives and delivery - fun channel! By the way, just picked up a very well kept G Boley myself, not the cheapest lathe but we'll see how the spindle and tailstock line up, that's usually a tricky one to get right.🙂 Rob
Dear Lance and Patrick With the Trump administration and the covid-19 pandemic I was fearing for you . I made enquiries how to Contact the F.B.I. to check on you ! Looking forward to all your new videos Christopher from Down Under
Hello down under, hi Christopher, we are fine you see we already live our lives (our choice) like we are on a lockdown already, it is the rest of the world we feared how they would deal with things and they seemed to of handled things well. We have added so many new machines and tools to begin sharing in use while we machine parts, we cannot wait. Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
You guys sure do a lot of talking. Personally I don't need to hear what you're going to do before you do anything and you can describe all those neat little pieces as you're. Applying them or assembling them.
Hi we totally understand I wantAvote. We value all comments, talk a lot we sure do, can we share why we talk so much, While Lance has in the CB Radio world he is titled the California Talker (hint hint) it is the official FCC radio license handle for us. We also live together Patrick and I best of friends since 1975 and we also live in a very rural high desert Southern California town named Yucca Valley in the south western end of the Mojave Desert surrounded by many gold and silver mines long past there production days, so you see, none the less, those tumble weeds, blowing sands and wild desert animals do not make for too much the conversation so we like to share via the social media outlets adorn the masses these days. We have been doing what it is we do here at Active Atom for 30 years after May 3rd arrived and has sense pasted. We only have this way to share and yes we sure do talk a lot as it is all we have and while it is a lot there is a volume on your computer as our videos and shows are very visual as well. We make these videos to cover all levels of rebuilding and assembling skills globally so we have to walk at a pace to cover those not at your level and perhaps others at even higher levels and make it work for all to allow our educational and show videos to be effective and that is the best answer we can share. We sure thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us and know this, we are proud you are here sharing and viewing our videos them and you matter. We hope to return uploading videos in the near future as we do enjoy making them and sharing more of our machinery and tool so many more to come even two products we are currently making to share and sale through our store at ActiveAtom.com in the coming year or so. Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
Thank you Adrian, we sure feel loved by so many. We have to share while we did get a lot of work done around the shop and we acquired so much to share with you all, there comes a time we needed to return after 18 months of not being around doing some sharing making shows and such, thank you for the kind words. Lance & Patrick.
1st time viewer truly awesome 2 see Master Craftsman at work, Searching 4 Watchmakers Lathe and came across your video. Enjoyed it...Love the Music 🖖✌👌 As an Inventor/Industrial Designer I have always had desire to learn this craft Do you guys do special projects ? PS: Can't wait to see the Sprinkles on top 2 Thank Drzigzag 🖖✌👌
Hi Bobby Y, we welcome you to our operation here in the high desert of California. We do special projects in our past for others, however we are thinking of making one of our designs from our near 30 years come May 03, 2023 into a real product and offer it through our channel and website eventually, however do know this we move really slow and we are talking some time from now so for now we restore our machines and tools add more capabilities and seek to have new friends through this social media outlet like we now consider you one of our newest friends, we both thank you for your very kind words and for coming here to see what it is we are offering. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Max fellow RUclips creator, we love hearing from our fellow hard working creators, it is nice to red a set of kind words from you Max, we both are thankful and hey Max congratulations on the new shop as you build it out. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Paul, we are both so excited to be here, last week we uploaded our introduction video on the main channel page and it too was well received even though it was not posted as a share by RUclips. We are glad this return show was well liked by you. We sure are driven when we read the kind words of so many of the people, many we know via RUclips, this is really cool. Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
Hi Dave we are gladly back, wait until you start to see things going on here. A new video coming in about a week followed by another a few days later then a delay as we complete some work here, it has been really busy here (no film time but lots of completed good work) as the economy is roaring for us and we are so thankful to have it. We thought we might be doomed but then things looked up and up they went. Thank you for the file sticker complete proudly being displayed going forward and hey thank you for being here with us we are happy to call you our fellow California friend Dave. L&P
Yes we shall make some parts at last if we have to refurbish/rebuild one more vintage machine here we are both going to explode. Thank you for sharing these thoughts bout cutting gears the gears, because we need them to produce our product so yes we will and yes we will film to share this event here. Lance & Patrick.
Active atom, hello! it is good to see you guys posting again! that boley that moves the carrage is beautiful. i will be watching this playlist closely. if you get in the mood to give away stickers, i would be most happy to display your sticker on my tiny channel! poppy's workshop says HI
Yes hello UFO EMMA station located along a dark remote tree lined rea somewhere across this GREAT country we each call home. We would be honored to send the stickers a twin set to you for your channel so please email us at info@activeatom.com
Well said and hi Stan, oh the spring as watchmakers we know the small parts all to well as clearly do you. We tried rubber absorbing mats below under and around our watchmaker desk and to no prevail missing those parts that fly off the workbench. The only thing the years have taught us comes from our mums, it is lean over the table when eating or when working with making small parts holding them movements assemblies or disassembles, that seems to be it. Thank you for coming by watching and sharing your kind thoughts. Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom Was going to suggest an electromagnet to capture those wayward tiny parts, but not all parts are ferritic. Put on my McGiver hat and came up with, are you ready for it? POLYESTER FIBERFILL! Fluff it out to resemble the 'snow illusion' used by retail merchants in displays around Christmas shopping season. Hear me out. Before you push the idea aside concerned that those tiny fibers will contaminate the workplace, I may have that figured out, too! In a room or an area distant from the workshop fluff up the fiberfill to an acceptable density in the shape of a large enough circular (or square, rectangular, etc) shape for the workbench and lightly spray with a fixative, such as Scotch spray adhesive or even hairspray. Let me know if something this simple sounds feasible. Aside from that idea, maybe an acrylic box large enough to accommodate the work with openings for your hands similar to a plastigrit blasting box used to delicately remove rust. Or even combine the two ideas? EDIT: Just hit me. An even better medium would be the 'spiderweb' decor used around Halloween! Longer fiber staple length may possibly eliminate the need to apply fixative! Damn! Sometimes I ask myself "Why didn't I think of that?". O.K., rant over. Read less
Hi Steve, thank you for sharing a thought, your channel is doing so well you are well liked and we enjoy knowing you. We love your new shop efforts watched many of the videos on that build but we truly must share our love for Elizbeth and her squirrel because see Steve, we have desert squirrel's here and we feed them the quail (California state bird), rabbits and the other nice birds each morning but I cannot hold one, so we are both jealous of her ability to have such a fun friend, thank you for liking our work here. Lance & Patrick.
Hey Guys, good to see and hear you again! And with a VERY cool set of little machines, to boot! Those are beautiful lathes, they just don't seem to have that kind of class anymore in what we normally see in machinery. Maybe modern watchmaker lathes do, but not what the "rest of us" play with, lol!
Hello to our friend at the northeast of us here, you are the kindest speaking RUclips machinist category person we know Everett. We have this chance to once again thank you for discovering that machine you shared to see if we were interested a while back and we sure thank you for thinking about us Everett. It is true that the no longer make this level of manual watchmaker machines today they do make some really cool one we love this Kern Pyramid 5 axis watchmaker multi cnc machine center mill and a Tornos cnc Swiss style lathe line both makers are top level the G. Boley of these modern times we think and one of them is on our radar as CNC programmers we just would love to earn one someday. Thank you again for liking our pair of lathes there will be 1 or 2 more parts of this build and share to wrap it up Everett, glad you are well thank you for sharing with us and we are thankful to have you in our lives. Lance & Patrick
Hello JohnSL, you have a great channel great machinery and you do neat work, we enjoy your efforts and thank you for stopping in and saying hi and welcoming us back into the RUclips community of makers.
Hi a great top of the morning too you, figured you would be hanging out at that channel that is rebuilding that Chuckee 10EE with the taper cutter attachment he is detailed and I was right we see you comment often LOL. Thank you for coming by, we miss being here after 18 months away, and you will see the candy video we call it the attachment nd accessory video for the G. Boley say in Part 3 but we have to make the idler pulley to use it first in the Part 2 show but we will get there, we love your BBQ shares once in the while so you know they make us hungry here. Lance & Patrick.
Hello again, you two gentlemen, as usual, a fantastic video, the explanations, the filming, the details, the clarity, the filming and the soundtrack music. All to make up a great educational watchmaker lathe video. I don't want to sound like a creep but I am only just getting into the Watchmaking lathe groove and recently bought a vintage Putra lathe, which was used a great deal in WW2 to make lots of small precise items for the RAF /ARMY/NAVY. In nice condition. Anyway, keep it coming lads, my regards, Colin, the UK.
No you are never a creep, you are interesting in advanced watchmaking and the machinery and tools that achieve those goals are a story within each as you are sharing with us. Thank you for enjoying our efforts and for being here with us on our journey taking place from the high-desert of California in the USA. Lance & Patrick. P.S. Will look in to your Putra Lathe to see what it is about that ids what we love doing here research all the time.
Hi Craig, hey we said hello over at Emma's new place. Thank you for watching and liking our video we had been gone for 18 months. We love these lathes, they are a pair of great German made examples, one from the early times at the G. Boley company and the other the rare one, that (guessing here) was likely an attempt to add features so sales would continue while watchmaking demand was likely dipping in the current economic times. Craig stay well, and hey in our next show out we offer up an American made precision and patriotic pair of items to one lucky winner, so hope you can come back and enter it is really easy no gimmick no cost to the winner what so ever and this will be our first ever giveaway. Than k you again stay well, Lance & Patrick. P.S. winner winner chicken dinner LOL.
@@ActiveAtom thanks both. I will certainly be back and entering into the draw! A bit of mystery makes it very interesting. I noticed you had been gone for a while. Hoped you guys were ok and had seen you in the comments sections of other videos, so I knew you hadn't dropped off the perch 😁 Looking forward to seeing more. Thanks, Craig 👍
Hi Joe and fellow RUclipsr, that comment means a lot to us knowing you and your channels fine work, work we often enjoy watching as you bring the dead back to life along with a good story to accompany the refurbishing projects. Thank you for the kind words and warm welcome. Lance & Patrick.
Welcome back, Gentlemen! Those Boley lathes are amazing, and this video did not disappoint. I actually own a Pratt & Whitney #3 bench lathe with a rare chasing attachment, but with only one master thread.
Hi Daniel, yes they are known to be on your fine lathe benchtop size and up but not on a single arm watchmaker lathe this thing is so small we think that makes it even more cool being tiny like that. Pratt & Whitney #3 that is a great lathe it can make parts all the day long. Having the thread chasing is a giant bonus but you know that for sure. Thank you for sharing and for the warm welcome, enjoy that P&W lathe we love the maker a lot Lance & Patrick.
Well thanks to you we know what a longcaster is and what that talent skill is, always learning here. We are both very happy to be back as well, there is a bit to share still to come. Lance & Patrick.
Hi, and a GREAT hello Matthew, the machine this G. Boley is a great one we selected to share, we have so many more share through showing and even more to show cutting parts doing what it is they do really well and accurate, making sweet well designed watchmaker replacement parts though in their glory days they were the production machines, even having per part counters, so the operator could keep accurate counts of the parts yielded during their work shift. Thank you for being here with us Matthew, we are happy to have you. Lance & Patrick.
Hello my friends, I just found your channel and can't wait to see what you make next! Please don't keep us waiting for too long, you do really good work!
Hey hello Riley, we are so happy to read such kind words on a time of well unusual times would be putting things mildly. We are sorry to have been working so many days and hours filming so little but we had to bring up our machine parts sizes to larger parts machining and fine finishing so much new equipment and so many upgrades we have a whole world to us we must share with you and others as soon as possible. Thank you again for being here with is and for your patients. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Vernon, we just wrote a nice comment reply to Steven about how we use and how often we use those flat ground stone pair in the rebuilding of our machinery and some tools that they came from you through him as a gift we won, we will never forget that and we do get reminded as we use them each week, they are a real help around here really they are Vernon. God bless the USA and each and every one of us is what that patch was added for Vernon. Your loving pair of friends in this rural dusty desert town we call home. lance & Patrick.
What a wonderful channel I have just come across. I was searching for a lathe, I wanted to take up a new hobby in my latter years, and I found you guys 😊 Thank you for the bit of history into this piece of art. 👍🏻 subscribed
Well Fumingzeus, you have arrived at the right place if you are looking to a new hobby making micro machined watch movement sized parts one offs or in light production we will be sharing it all once we get back to making videos been busy working at making parts of late but hoping to change this and continue sharing once again. Thank you for the very kind words and we are so happy you discovered our channel. Also thank you for subscribing enjoy what we have filmed and released new videos coming. Lance & Patrick.
Well them are really high expectations Colin, the thought to surpass those fine German engineering qualities is a mission to us, we sure strive to match and in some cases exceed these goals here in the Workshop, this is our whole life doing this work, we are proud to do it be able to perform tit and do it on camera during our shows Colin. We are thankful you stopped in shared these really well supper very kind loving words about our efforts we both thank you very much, we actually miss sharing these things with you all. Lance & Patrick.
Thanks Guys! I have been anxiously awaiting the reveal of the project that has had you off the You Tube for a year! Well Done! I look forward to the demonstration under power, and understanding how the Boley threading attachment works. That machine is like a sparkling piece of jewelry.
Hi Jeff a fellow RUclipsr we often watch though our TV. Wishing our friend to the north of us is doing well. We have been gone 18 months and Jeff we actually missed sharing though we did buy too many new machines and tools rebuilt and repaired many tools we miss sharing our efforts with others, so here we are. We have to make an idler pulley system to operate all of the accessories and the attachments so we will likely make that in Part 2 and then in say Part 3 we will share the already completed G. Boley tools and that is thousands of intricate components that have each been painstakingly (well we felt no pan we love each part of all of our assemblies here) refurbished but a bit of luck Jeff, these accessories and attachments were in great shape so we are thinking of calling that Part 3 the candy show because all of these tools are so sweet. Jeff thank you for being here with us we enjoy knowing you and your channel. Lance & Patrick.
Hi Dainius, it is a really clean shop that allows for really clean machinery and tool rebuilding's as we say, there we go preaching again cannot help it. We like to read your comment about these efforts, it helps us be thankful we have something good to you we are sharing, that matters to us here. Thank you again for being so kind in sharing your thoughts with us. Lance & Patrick.
Thank you, Marek, looks to be you enjoyed our shows we are very happy to have you here, thank you for sharing your thought with us as well. Lance & Patrick.
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Bloody hell! You promised to return and you have. Great to see you again. 👏👏👍😀
I know I know right we actually made a promise and kept it, that puts these two lad's a step up there somewhere, LOL. Have a great day and thank you for always being here (warm support) we know this because your name is so unique Mr. Carpathian. Lance & Patrick.
There back. Beautiful Lathe
Gary? fellow RUclipsr. Thank you for the warm words, we love the machine in this Part 1 there will be a part 2, making the idler pulley and some of the missing standard gears and might have a part 3 this will be us showing the completed line of attachments and accessories that make up a completed kit form the factory for that special lathe, that is going to be like being in a candy shop to us both, so sweet, hope you can join us for these. Once again thank you s much for sharing a thought. Lance & Patrick.
Happy days, so good to have you both back lads.
We are really, we mean really really happy to be back and to return to such a caring and kind group of people like yourself this all means the world to us. We never stopped working the whole 18 months in fact we probably got more work done during that time it defeated our purpose of being a sharing pair in rural desert town, so we are thankful to be so well received, thank you again and thank you for joining us, Lance & Patrick.
Hello Lance and Patrick! Ever so glad to see you again. We’ve needed your cheerfulness in these COVID times. Thanks!
Yes and hi 624Dudley, we think now 624Dudley that the event made the rest of the world know how it is we Patrick and Lance already live our lives as hermits that travel not more then say 700 miles annually total but reminder that way and this lifestyle is all by choice our personal choice, however that said, that global event was not a personal choice not something we wish upon others.
We sure hope you are doing well and we are both glad to have you here for Part 1 of what might become Parts 2 and maybe 3 depending on the amount of efforts remaining here on this G. Boley lathe project. Thanking you again for the very kind words they matter to us here so very much. Lance & Patrick.
I am so happy to see you post again. I hope that it the beginning of regular content. Thank you.
Hi train man, you are the flat stone man. Did you know we use those more then we ever thought we would, you make GREAT flat stone sets Steven and we could not have done some of our rebuilding work without those stones from you and Vernon, we will not ever forget winning them. Patrick says hello and remember in our next video we will be asking viewers friends and the like to simply enter to win this great USA made precision gift and patriotic gift we have bought as our first ever giveaway Steven. Your friend in the California desert Lance & Patrick.
Hi guys, great to see you posting again. Digging the lock down hair Lance. 🙂
Hehe, that hair it is really Lance just reaching screaming out, as you might not know we cut our own hair so we can buy more tools and machinery for the shop, this is true so why did he stop cutting the hair, it is actually Lance writing so it was time for a change good or bad it us, we are too compliant for all these years of cutting our own hair for almost 20 years if the memory is doing well. We thank you for stopping in and sharing these kind words. Lance & Patrick.
Patrick , Lance very nice job..
Hi fellow RUclipsr Doug is what we have written down thinking that is right, we are happy you stopped in shared some kindness towards us, we are thankful to have you as we love those machines a lot and are happy you enjoyed watching us work on them. We love being back after 18 months away we never stopped working only stopped filming to wrap up a lot of projects in a shorter amount of time. Stay well and thank you again. Lance & Patrick.
I missed you guys! Glad to see you again!
You know what lukeissobad, we actually missed you and the others more, you see, we live so rural only drive around 700 miles a year total for both of us, so this social networking thing is our only true outlet, unless like we did for the past mostly 28 years and the last more resent 18 months just stayed busy rebuilding machinery and tools for our shop and not sharing i.e. no buddy knew anything about us or our workings), we need to be sharing. We are back and we are also all caught up with the open efforts around this great Workshop. Cannot thank you all enough for the warm return and welcomes, we thank you so much, Lance & Patrick.
Beautiful little machines. Welcome back guys.
We agree our fellow RUclips creator, we think these two machines are amazing and they each came out so well considering that one is a very low 4 digit serial number while the other is a 5 digit serial number. We actually cannot wait until we share the machines accessories / attachments having them all and in great like new working order that is going to be a really great show in our opinions. Thank you for being here with us we are happy for the kind words. Lance & Patrick.
Welcome back!
Hello Yuchol, had to look that spelling up we do watch you on ARW live each week when you are on there as well we are so happy the bond you and Randy have casted forged that is great he is a GREAT man hands down a wonderful man to us here. Thank you for the warm welcome fellow RUclipsr. Lance & Patrick.
Glad you are back.
Paul thank you, we are very glad to be back sharing though we actually never went anywhere just got into too much work and got about 80% caught up on all the projects we had pending, thank you coming by and sharing. Lance & Patrick.
Welcome back, boys.
Ah a show could not be complete if not for a kind set of words from our friend MrShobar, thank you for stopping in to share. We are both happy to be back, happy to have acquired a lot more machinery and tools to grow our abilities and yes share even more things to come. Lance & Patrick.
То что Вы дедаете- ВОСХИТИТЕЛЬНО!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
РЕСПЕКТ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad you are back 😊
Hi Janek, thank you for the kind welcome, we are really happy to be back. We were gone for 18 months and while we continued working, truthfully, we actually got more work done because we did not need to worry about sharing and well we also went a bit wild and bought some new machinery and tools here so there is a lot more to share going forward, stay well and thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
Lance & Patrick,
Great to have you back on our screens and what a fabulous project to return with. Looking forward to many more episodes...
Take care.
Paul,,
Hello to our kind friend Paul. We thank you for your warm private words send to us today they meant a lot to us both truly they do.
We are happy you enjoyed the show and we sure enjoyed making this Part 1 of 2 or 3 depending on the amount of work this finalizing presents us to show her working utilizing each of her factory accessories. There really are so many, many we never new existed Paul, it is truly amazing to us to have this fine piece of German engineered precision in our Workshop Paul. Thank you again for the support of our efforts, these many kind words we read keep these two hermits alive and kicking. lance & Patrick.
I am glad that you are back. It has been a long time. I would check in randomly to see if anything was posted.
We are even more glad then you might be, we love this work so much but the time had come to get some of the projects completed and far as rebuilding and refurbishing goes. We also realize the great feeling we both have when we read from you that we were missed and we in fact are not forgotten, we thank you dearly and we feel both equally blessed here Scott, Scott is Lance's middle name. We took 18 months off of filming but not off our work this is all we know and do and what we can now do and perform here is greatly improved meaning there is so much more to offer and share going forwards. Thank you again, Lance for Lance & Patrick.
very nice lathe , Sure is good to see you guys again ! ENJOYED ..
Shawn we thank you how nice to have a visit from a fellow RUclipsr welcoming us back we are so happy after 18 months to be back, this means a lot to us both, we have done so much work but did not film or share it, we are now mostly caught up and ready to share share share. Lance & Patrick.
Good evening from the UK! Great to see another video from you guys. Look forward to future updates 🙂
Hi hey we watch RUclips shows and love that "Pay up or we will take it away" police show on our tele, you all call them the high court enforcers, it is the best. Hi Russell thank you for coming in for a visit from across the pond, hoping all is well for you there. We are more excited to be back then we are letting on we actually miss you all the comments make our days and nights allowing us to make friends to share with like yourself. We both thank you sincerely Russell. There will be a lot of future shows now that we are nearly all caught up around both the Workshop and the Machine Shop. Lance & Patrick.
Spring has sprung. Covid is on the run and Lance and Patrick are back to entertain us. Sure is great to see you guys again. The only thing that be better is if Lance would find a barber.
If we lived near a harbor we might acquire barber, but that barber, well that is Lance. We have been cutting our own hair since the early 2000's when we came to the realization that we could buy more tools and machines and save that time wasted in the barber chair plus travel even though around that time the barber was in the same building as we were located within. The issue was the man could not cut Patrick's hair straight always crooked so we have more tools because of that error alone LOL. but true. Thank you for the kind words we hope to do better work as we progress through the remaining months of this 2021 year. Lance & Patrick.
Good to see you back and okay; it has been a little while.
Hi yes it has been 18 months. We sure did a lot of machine work rebuilding work and too too much buying so the shop is more able today then ever as we stepped up our abilities to begin making larger then watch parts sized parts, something we might be able to sell through our channel we shall just have to wait and see. Thank you for returning to see and comment on our return show. Lance & Patrick.
I wondered if you guys were ever going to make another video. Welcome back.
Hi Harold it is GREAT to read from you our fellow RUclipsr friend. 18 months but we never stopped working only stopped filming. We watch you Tom, Randy, Dave others and your rotating guests each week, it is nice to see you all sharing your skills with us all, keep it up and thank you again Harold. Lance & Patrick.
Probably the most awaited event in recent history...A new Active Atom video! So great to see you guys back, and one day the barbers will be open again... 👍
Hi to buy more tools and machinery as we have Lance has been the barber here since the early 2000's reducing our contact with outsiders (we are hermits) and while this affords us extra tool money it also affords to us the extra time needed to refurbish or rebuild each machine and tool we buy, recently we have been buying some new machinery to get us moving towards making our product a bit faster, but not too fast Lorem, we still do not know what it is we are making here hehe. Come back for our gift opening video and enter to win the Made in the USA patriotic gift we will ship it anywhere in the world for free to one lucky winner. Do not worry that tool and machinery hoarder Patrick is not allowed to sign up to win it, so we are safe on that note Lorem. Lance & Patrick.
Nice to see both of you back and healthy. Thanks for making these videos and sharing your knowledge and experience.
Hi Dennis, it is our pleasure to have you interesting on our efforts wishing we could share more as we work 7 days a week that filming had to take a back seat with only the two of us here, we will try harder to bring more quality videos soon, thank you again. Lance & Patrick.
So Great to see a video from you Guys The Lathe is Awesome I spent all winter restoring old tools and lately I have been fixing the car and working on the big garden tractor
Hi Jim we know the tractor watched that video cool ride friend from you a 1974 tractor. Reminds us of what car we had in 1974, it was a dark brown 1974 Chevy Corvette with a 454 V8 engine in it, had to jack the engine up to change the spark plugs, it was an automatic we sold it to a man in Australia and that was what I remember was how fast that car was, Lance was 11 Patrick was 7 meaning that was one year before we met one another Jim. Thank you for the kind words. Lance & Patrick.
Good to see you back after 18 months. Like to see the lathe in action making some parts.
Hello James working and in action to follow Parts 2 and maybe Part 3 as in Part 2 we will be making the gears that are missing and we have to make the idler pulley for the project board build, so there is that machining to see before the G. Boley can share her skills of making great parts. Than you. Lance & Patrick.
it's really grad to see you again :D i really missed you
Hi yep a secret to share, we miss sharing with you all even more then you miss us, to us this is true, 18 months of making parts , adding machinery and tools plus continued machine and tool rebuilding and what we got caught up, so we can begin filming and sharing again. Thank you for being here with us, Lance & Patrick.
Well done, gents. I haven't seen one of your videos in ages. I am thrilled that the little Boley will be well cared for. It has found a great home. I am kind of surprised that it has a micrometer tailstock with the taper rather than collet holding. I look forward to seeing it cutting threads. Welcome back!
Hello James, a fantastic question you present because it is likely others will have this very or similar question and might find your answer if they are looking.
You are right we know them to come with the collet holding tail stock and that is preferred here as well, but this one the rare one, built on camera came with what the buyer must have order and requested it to come with, we however did buy and have the collet holding tailstock for it along with all those accessories and attachments we will be sharing in Part 3 when we get to show all of these part working on the new lathe project board. Thank you again for watching and sharing your question it is a good one. Lance & Patrick.
yay! great to see that you guys are well.. Now that I commented, I can watch the video. :)
Oh no you commented before watching we going to tattle tell on you to the comment police at RUclips, they are watching us all you know, LOL. We hope you enjoyed the show and thank you for sharing with us. Lance & Patrick.
Welcome back! Thanks for showing the assembly, very interesting. Looking forward to all the accessories!
Hi and hey, thank you for your kind words. We think the accessories in Part 3 likely will be what we call candy because they are so sweet, we only need to make an idler pulley in Part 2 for the project board and mount it, then we are ready to share the usage of each accessory and attachment for the G. Boley, hope you come back and see this in action we might even make some threads here. Thank you again Lance & Patrick.
What a nice little lathe, can't wait to see it cut a screw so small it is not visible without magnification.
You got that right this thing is really small we are so thankful that this rare machine is at a home that can correctly rebuild and maintain it for the future to continue to enjoy, it is a reminder to us both that we are not the machinery and tool owners, we are merely the caretakers for the future generations. Thank you again longcaster, Lance & Patrick.
Great to see the fellas back! What a beautiful pair of lathes, I can't wait to see them in action :)
Hi George, we literally forgot what they look like, we cannot wait we both and you get to see all of the refurbished accessories in action as well as the auto threading feature this is one crazy rich machine with so many attachments, it is just mind boggling to us both the effort that had to have gone into the making and the finishing of these fine components at the G. Boley machine tool factory. Thank you again for the kindness towards us and these fine precision machines and tools George. Lance & Patrick.
Nice lathes i'm happy for you
Thank you, we do love her, our G. Boley factory made lathe is one of our little rock stars and we love to share with you and others. There is more G. Boley performances by and about her to come, she is going to perform some day in the future and we hope to film it, share it and talk about it in greater length about her and all of her complete set of accessories.
Thank you I wantAvote for taking time to share your feelings and thoughts with us here.
Lance and Patrick.
So very glad to see you guys back!!!
Hello Fosdick it is important to fear nothing even returning to RUclips as we just did. We have a lot to be sharing a lot was missed as we needed to get the work done and now we are nearly all caught up and have of course a lot of new and exciting machinery and tools to share while we begin making parts on them finally. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Nice to see you back! That is such a beauty! Thanks for sharing.
Yves thank you for your kindness, we are glad you like our show part 1 of 2 or 3 depending on things we have to make an idler pulley system for it, a few standard gears that are missing and then we are going to share all of the attachments and accessories in action, that we might name the show candy so sweet it is LOL. Thank you for stopping in. Lance & Patrick.
G’day Lance and Patrick, it’s been a while but good to see you back. Nice little lathes.
Cheers
Peter
Hi Peter we are amazed to continue watching your build out of that Gingery mill, it shows that these machines and tools are just endless, you sure enjoy your efforts. Thank you for stopping in, it has been 18 months since we last made a video, the lathes are really neat wait until we share the accessories and the likes it is all like candy so sweet it truly is Peter. Lance & Patrick.
Great to see you back again.
Yes hey hello Chris GREAT to read from you feels like it was but only yesterday we were sharing comments and now we are back and on a mission to bring great shows to our friends going forward, life here is really good and we are wishing this for you equally, and for that these two guys who spent too much money adding things to the shop in preparation for the making of our first product to begin this year still as far as we are thinking that is Chris. Reminder in our unboxing gift video coming up next we offer our first ever gift, it is brand new the latest precision item made right here in the USA and we hope you will come watch us open the 6 packages we mentioned in this video enter then to win this prize. These packages that have been waiting to be opened now for the 18 months since we last filmed must b opened shortly. Thanking you again for the kindness towards us and this fine show. Lance & Patrick.
Super great to see my friends back at it !! Awesome work as usual and those are two wonderful machines !! and Lance rocking the long hair !!! missed you guys ! Joe
Hey you we follow each other all over this Internet thing, someone thought I might be an original member of the 1981 hair/glam metal rock band TESLA who formed in our state capitol of Sacramento California the same state I am a native of. Fun-in a bit with our friend Joe got to love having a Bridgeport Mill expert in the house we both sure are, thank you for being here with us Joe. Lance & Patrick.
So glad to see you both again! Awesome job as always!
Hello our fine finishing and master, fellow RUclipsr and saver of great tools we are happy to have you stop in and welcome us back, having a compliment from you like this is an honor thank you very much we miss being here and sharing we were too busy working and not sharing anything. Wait til you see our giveaway, our first ever it is something done in a way you might appreciate coming in our next show whenever that is. Thanking you again, Lance & Patrick.
Hey guys...good to see you again!! Thanks for the video. Beautiful lathe!!
Hi Joe thank you for sharing your thoughts with us, we enjoy the comment interaction as our only means of sharing after we release a show. We are happy you like the lathes, wait until we show the attachments and accessories for that rare lathe as it will be both fun to share and interesting learning for us and you. Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
A thing of beauty and a joy forever!!!
Well said Melissa, very well said indeed Patrick and I are so happy with the results after each machine or tool that we strive to improve, then next one and the next one after that seem to just get better and greater amounts of time depending, this occurs when we begin machining our parts soon we will take our efforts to we hope great and new heights Melissa, thank you. We have joy, so much joy, we think you are able to see in or sharing through these shows we seem to love being able to do. Lance & Patrick.
Welcome back!!! I'm having my morning coffee while watching. Would you guys like a cup???
Hello Dan I (Lance) had two up since 3:30 AM daily Patrick up 6:30 Am Daily. I always have room for another cup, so yes I would gladly join you while you are enjoying our show. Thank you for stopping in saying hello and enjoy the coffee and in fact enjoy this GREAT week it is up to you and us as to how the week turns out.
Dan there will be a part 2 or so where we machine and assemble an idler pully assembly for this project board lathe and then say a Part 3 we will share all of those already reworked or refurbished accessories and attachments from G. Boley work on this Lathe and finally we will make the missing thread size gears we do not have for the lathe.
Lance & Patrick.
So glad you are back! It really made my day. Beautiful and lathes and looking forward to seeing all the attachments. Life is good :-)
Hi you see, you think we made your day, we must confess it is all of you actually, that makes our day, we know sharing is taking some extra work to provide but we never stopped working towards our projects and one of those is to begin making our product something we still have yet to share. We are thinking those attachment and accessories show should be called the candy shop they are so sweet, wait until you see what all of these can do. Note that the accessories and attachments come after the making of the needed idler pulley system to operate these. They are like new these attachments but we still went through each of the thousands of components that make all of them up it is a real labor of love and we feel it is of important watchmaker historic importance. Thank you so much for stopping in sharing the very warm welcoming and kind words, you made our day. lance & Patrick.
Hi Lance and Patrick. It has been a while and I have missed your excellent videos on RUclips. Great to watch you both in action again!
All the best,
Norm in Arizona
Hi NORM, we also did a channel intro on the main video page if you like to go watch that one. We are so happy to hear from you knowing you are well is important, you have been with us here since we began this adventure so we are happy to see you again for sure Norm. We will have another video a progress video out this coming week and one more behind it. Right now we have just insulated the garage ceiling to match the walls and we double insolated the garage door as well. It turns out we have enough money left over tp add a smart air conditioning unit to cover this open style rafter garage with plenty of comfort to spare so we will share this in a video shortly. You know what we know Norm, living in the high desert, be it here in California our in your beautiful Arizona, the temperatures can do both a freezer and really heat up and this summer, see our work, near all of it at this time is in the Machine Shop area (garage converted) at not at the already climate controlled Workshop area so we are off to a great start, well Norm that is once we install the air conditioner but the insolation has already helped a lot here. Thank you for continuing with us Norm. Lance & Patrick.
You guys just made my day, welcome back. Great content
Hi Milan, wow that is a really nice comment and we hope we can be given the chance to make many more of your days, by the way do not forget to enter in the contest, not yet though, in our gift opening video coming up next you will have the chance to win a set of presents we are giving away details to follow, it is going to be our first ever giveaway and the prize is top shelf. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.
I'm really glad to see that you guys are doing well and back making videos. I was worried that something bad had happened and we wouldn't hear from you again. I don't usually leave comments on videos, but you two are some of my favorite people making machining videos!
Hi Paul, we are both fine despite the Lance hair-o-roma, hehe. We are very happy you did break your rule and share your thoughts with us concern about us and such. We remain safe living in a rural desert town and behaving like a pair of old hermits, means that we are like already on lockdown like the rest of the globe was forced into, be it very different for us though, we do this lifestyle by choice and well, to buy more machinery and tools with the money we save, truthfully but we are so happy to have returned we completed so much rebuilding and added so many machines used old and new tools of great precision as well. Know this Paul we are both honored and humbled to read your caring thoughts and best of al your tagging us as one of your favorite makers, that means more to us then you might even realize, we are thankful to have you here and if we may be it digital for now call you our friend. Thank you again sincerely, Lance & Patrick.
Wow! Way to jump back in guys! 😀
What a beautiful little lathe 😍. The shine on that pulley and also everything else lol, is just awesome. I may have to throw mine back on the lathe for a good shine up 😊. Very enjoyable video guys. Glad to see you back. Cheers Lance & Patrick! 😁
Its Chris isn't it? We have been following you a fellow RUclipsr since the beginning of your channel, you have really come a long ways your channel is looking good as well. Thank you for the kind words, that work is all done by hand can you imagine and there are hundreds of accessories to the machine meaning there are 10's of thousands of components making up the entire line of accessories and attachments from the G. Boley company. Lance here I complain doing all these parts Patrick complains fitting them and in the end we forget those efforts and just sit back and enjoy the sweetness of these parts like they are made of candy. Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom well, they certainly look sweet! Well done! 😊
Chris.
That cantilevered bed seems odd but those lathes sure are pretty! Glad to see another video from you two!
Hi fellow RUclipsr and friend Brain. Cantilever is a good name for that style. Those are an overall length bed of 12.00 inches. It is what that the standard watchmaker lathes have, a single mount post to bed leg, if it has two then it is likely 18 inches in length Brian and will have a mounting point at both ends, we call those instrument bed lathes those are more common in our own shop as we make parts a bit over the watch parts size.
It is on the instrument length 18.00 inch length and above that a lathe begins to have the thread cutting ability and for that reason this is never found on the watchmaker bed lathe machines like the one has in the show.
We watched a visit video of a guy that we also subscribe to that came by your shop discussed your hard work and your shop but until after he greeted the paws of the company boss Baily and that was a great interview the man did with you, we enjoyed it, he really wants that radial drill we think watch out Baily. Thank you for the comment Brian and thank you for being here with us. Lance & Patrick.
P.S. We love you Baily and Brian please tell Baily Patrick's cat Tiny too small is turning 25 in September and she is looking good.
Great video guys! It’s so nice to see you back at it again. You both look great! And how you keep everything so clean, neat, and organized Is so impressive to me. Hope to visit sometime soon too. Rochelle and I are now fully vaccinated so we are free to roam the planet again.
Hi friend you are safe here as well x 2 or both here. We make things look cleaner then they are, hey you have watch up here as well running still hehe. Come on up from that fancy valley floor and see the hermits LOL. See you and Rochelle soon and share a great big hug to her from us please. Lance for Lance & Patrick.
P.S. We are glad to be back Joel after these 18 months, wait until you see what we added and finished up around here too busy to say it nicely friend.
That is 100% pure geek sexiness, there, gentlemen. I love that lathe and cannot wait to see the next video of your work to complete this project. Liked, Commented. Subbed. Thanks for this, and have a great day!
Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice work
glad to see you back, where have you been...
Hello Richard, thank you for the warm welcome, did you know we actually miss the comments, in fact Lance's Mom and dad enjoy reading them after watching us perform our efforts, thought you might like to know that Richard, because we are very thankful here in part because of yours and others really kind and warm words, it all matters to us. Lance & Patrick.
Great to see you guys back online. Lance - is that COVID hair you have going on there? Mine is about the same sir - just a little thinner. Glad you are back - looking forward to your content.
Hello to the man in Texas, hell storms, tornados, freezer conditions and too many people relocated to your state all at once, we are so happy to read from you as we were hoping you were doing well through all of these events in your state Rick. The hair thing is like this. I Lance have been cutting our hair in-house since the early 2000,s when the hair dresser in our old building kept cutting Patrick's hair crooked and the wait times and the cost it came to be, we could buy more machines and tools if we cut our own hair and we would even have more time to devote to our work each day, so see Rick there you have it, we suffer from a sickness we love our tools way too much LOL. Lovin Levin club member friends, Lance & Patrick.
Awesome video. I would love to see a general "Care and feeding" video for watchmaker's lathes. I recently acquired a vintage Reese 433 lathe, and I need to make sure the headstock is lubed and in good working order, but I really do not know where to begin.
Was just wondering a few days ago when you all were going to upload/post again!
Hi Stan you know it feels so nice to be back, we have accomplished so much in both the Workshop and the Machine Shop and not shared the progress and will now be sharing the end results of the rebuilding of so many machines and tools that we are using to make our parts with, we are so happy to return and be so accepted we even upgraded our opening set area, it is so much more roomy and such. Thank you for your kind words we need that in our lives here. Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom
Let's hope the winning Lotto ticket in the envelope hasn't expired!
Speaking of expired, are the racing snails in the smaller box still practicing for the Olympics? 🐌🐢🐌🐢🐇
Hot damn, fellers, yer back!! Not that I doubted your promise, but as time went on you can understand a certain . . . reluctance to believe. Lance, your hair! Despite earthquakes and downturns, you are looking like an 80's film star. Patrick, you look like Patrick!
So if you want some examples of another Boley watchmaker lathe, let me know. I have a Boley F1, and will send pics if you like. I've had a tough year and STILL have not moved the Levin into the shop Another joint replacement kinda slowed me down, but now I am the bionic man! (That sounds better than the reality).
Does this mean you are back in full contact? I have been hesitating to contact, since you've been so busy.
Hi Adam, sorry for the tough times we actually had a GREAT year health and business, we are both very fortunate. We will hold out great positive thoughts for your recovery on your joints those are not fun. Boley F1 that is a REALLY nice machine larger like our Levin instrument models. Sorry you have yet to move your Levin into its place of service as well Adam. Patrick is stable and always remains calm thus always looks like Patrick and well lance that is another story all over the map wild thought sporadic ideas and incredibly focused on the task when at hand that is. Thank you Adam. Lance & Patrick.
Love the Boley ww lathe at the start of this, what lovely thing! Sadly being in the UK I have to import such machines and the import and postage costs are not cheap nowadays!! Luckily I have just found I have a brother who I never knew existed until a few months ago and he is based in the US (Vermont) so he could help me source such lathes and related machines! (Or just move to the US myself?!)
Thank you, that model G. Boley is really neat, being a watchmakers lathe to have that feature is neat to at least be able to share what it is that machine and having all of the factory accessories / attachments of the machine some we did not know you needed until you have them hehe. Lost brother in Vermont lovely place we see though neither of us have been there as that is on the other coast the East Coast Atlantic ocean side, we are on the Pacific here, it is unique to read you have a newly found lost brother you were not aware of that is a really cool surprise, even we are both happy for you here. Are you going to use him as a tool and machine mule importing items to your country'? LOL. We are laughing here as we watch the show in the UK that covers immigration enforcement though our favorite show is the one with the high court riff, collections of debt rulings at her majesties pleasure we are assured. Thank you for sharing of your found brother, that was neat to learn and has us both thinking what if this were to be us? Lance & Patrick.
0:35 The hair!!!
We know wat a train wreck that guy is, hair well what is left of it is in part how the machinery and tools get paid for se we cut our own hair and have since the early years of the 2000's and it saves us both time and money even removes one more human interaction not related to machinery and tools that is. Thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Long time no see
Indeed it has been 18 months while we were working away we did little sharing on Instagram but no filming for the most part so it is great to be mostly caught up and now making shows to share again, we actually miss sharing our efforts and most of all, we miss the comment sharing with you and the others here on RUclips, thank you. Lance & Patrick.
What a beautiful lathe! Is there any chance you guys might be putting the screw cutting lathe up for sale once you’re finished restoring it?
Hi Bob, no is the quick answer but and as in life there is always that but moment.
We have a goal; it is our museum that while we add to her pretty much each month, we are weak in the securing of the funds that would make that effort a better safe place nearer or own ending (SOMEDAY, no hurry there), so you can know we are making 2 of our own designed and machined in-house limited edition products to sale through our videos and website coming by this years end and our 30th anniversary Bob.
That G. Boley we feel is great, we have a few gears to make for her from the master gears which we do have, they are critical in the lathe's importance.
This lathe is only one of our machines and the supporting tools in our workshop Bob, we should make a video, well a series as there are too many tools for sharing our tools of the past soon to be 30 years (well coming up on May 03, 2023).
We have a question for you?
Why do you want this automatic machine?
We would be interested in knowing that here as we are also in need of friends, and we like to know more about others like ourselves, those with interests in a common category Bob.
We must admit in closing that this one-off G. Boley watchmaker lathe is near the top of our crown jewel (it is however not the top one) in the collection and that is why we should make more sharing videos as this might lead to making us a few new friends along the way, thank you for your interest and thank you for being here with us on this journey. Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom hi, thanks for the reply! I’m finishing up a bs in mechanical engineering, and somehow I managed to get sucked into watch repair and watchmaking over the last few months. I’ll be looking for a lathe soon, and I’m fascinated by the screw chasing one because it’s a weird sort of hybrid between traditional watchmaker’s lathes and larger general purpose lathes. I’ve never seen a power feed on a watchmakers lathe, and I feel that it really adds to the machine’s versatility. I’m also in the process of modeling a watchmaker’s lathe, based on that style, and it would be great to have access to the screw chaser for reference. Is there any possibility you guys might take detailed photos of the parts?
@@bobbobbington1132 Hi as well Bob, great to read you are joining the watchmaker world, and with a bs in mechanical engineering, that will go a long way in making your own path whatever path you pursue knowledge and application are the kings and queens in our world here. Two things will happen now that you are in our (older persons) opinion, you will become a tool and machine junkie as they say, though personally we enjoy the tool and machinery collecting that does come with gaining knowledge in both the running using and maintained and repairs of these fine machines and tools, so we are not junkies we are more care takers taking care of the vintage tools and machines as well as the newer ones not yet (though someday) cares takers of them as well.
While we respect your liking the world's smallest known example of an automatic thread chasing lathe it is a very costly endeavor to pursue (not impossible) and it is likely why we have the only known micro example created.
A wiser move is to seek the next model or size up that was produced by Schaublin made in Switzerland and there are others that made these larger ones.
This lathe the G. Boley is not kept here, it is the only one so it is kept in a secure place to preserve its existence when we are not utilizing it, so for now the images and such are not available other then those in the video, sorry.
Please stay in touch we are happy you are here with us as mentioned and please feel free to reach out at any time as we do work in the Workshop area each day though right now, we are uploading a new operating system to our 4 axis CNC micro milling machine in the Machine Shop area, gosh these two guys sure do have fun each day Bob, we really do hope this happiness for you equally. Lance & Patrick.
How long did it take you guys to layout all those lathe parts for this wonderful RUclips video?
Haha we will never tell, well this is how we recall it, we just pored them out on a towel from a can and they ended up looking like that Melissa. Patrick actually takes the parts from me separated from other machines or tools and then lays them out meticulously, we never thought how long it takes but betting it takes a while. We have such a fun time doing our work we just get into it and we really do love these components, well its like this, each they are like family or something to us, do not really know that one.
Thank you Melissa for stopping in leaving not just one but two comments both of which we will gladly answer as we are so happy to have contact with like minded people, this is all a great thing, take a\care and again thank you. Lance & Patrick.
Great video - THANK YOU. Any idea how old the two lathes are?
Hi Djahn, that took a while but yes, we do have an answer to our G. Boley lathe ages not exact (no one we know seems to really know G. Boley serial number dating) but here is what is true.
These two machines we have and share within the video you notice are nickel plated, the tools produced from G. Boley in nickel are their first ones (from the beginning).
G. Boley looks to have made the lathes later as painted, they began receiving a hammertone green, it is like a light silver green, in fact Djahn we are actually painting (powder coating) two G. Boley parts, they are early but non nickel specialty tail stocks that were painted in this hammertone green and we cannot wait to share these rare accessories with our viewers soon.
Djahn, thank you for writing and thank you for sharing your question with us who knows a person may come along and have a better dating of G. Boley machines and accessories to share with us and we can then share with others here as well.
Stay well thank you agian for being here with us on this journey, Lance & Patrick.
Woohoo! Active Atom is posting a new video! So glad to see y'all again! The G. Boleys are lookin' gorgeous! (I hope I can get my AWC lathe lookin' that good some day, BTW I decided to mount her on an 18x12 butcher block as well!) I love all the clever innovations on the screw-cutting version! Lance, did you also re-plate those parts when you polished them, or were they already in such good shape?
Hi George, it is nice to read there are others that like the portable work table i.e. butchers block mounting method it. To us it is just that these older machines were made up of the parts application, choices of the machine, motor, lathe bed and such to be all separated like also the idler pulley and counter shaft setups to best allow the matching of the desired machine to the operators desires for optimum performance. It is great you went with the more desired even by these two 12.00" x 24.00" project board they are much easier to lift then the 18.00" x 24.00" ones and often times find a good place to display or store it, the smaller one like yours is.
While we do do a mix of our own making for nickel plating the components when required this pair of particular machines were not in the shape needing that level of attention well the counter shaft main pulley is actually striped and ready for re-plating in nickel so there is that part being done an a watchmakers mini caliper as well vintage for the future museum however we have the ends of dust covers screws and some parts on a Derbyshire 850 instrument lathe headstock that are in line right now for nickel plating so we must mix some up use the tools that perform the best heating plates, circulators, lots of chemicals a pH meter reader to control that and such, this will deliver to us the best wear and we selected to do the satin finish as apposed to the popular chrome polished finish. Thank you again for stopping in, sharing your efforts from your own shop and for liking our work here. Lance & Patrick.
That looks like an amazing rebuild. I love to know where and how you find these.
Do you ever redo the nickel plating?
Nylon came to the market in 1939 Lignum would have been used.
I have just discovered your great restoration program and I have just been giving a LORCH KD50 8mm. I repair clocks for a hobby so it’s going to be very helpful to me so I would like to strip it down and re paint and polish it could you please tell me what polishing grit you use to make it so shiny I have a great polishing buff with different mops. Im 85 years old and I have been building Model Steam Engines since I was 19 so if you can help me it would be great. Cheers Doug from Australia.
I've missed you guys. So happy to see you on the silver screen once again.
Hello Roy, glad to read from you knowing you are doing well by to seeing you share here. We are surprised to be so missed, it has been 18 months and while we did continue working and a lot was completed. There are so many new machines and tools we have to share with you all going forward we surely cannot wait to get at the sharing thing again. Thank you for coming to see what it is we are up to, thank you for the very kind words they get us through. Your friend, Lance & Patrick.
coolest watchmakers lathe ive ever seen !!!! whatoil are you using on parts ?
Hi Sonny, thank you so much, while she has a few more gears to make she does make great threaded parts for very vintage wrist watches we do love that G. Boley watchmaker's lathe. The oil we use in the Workshop and for machine and tool rebuilding refurbishing is what is known as the finest refined mineral oil on earth, it is from NyOil Made in the USA comes in around 4 ounce or greater sizes we use the red not the blue the difference is the blue is synthetic and the red is the original natural and then greatly refined lubricant, it is really that good we LOVE our NyOil. Thank you for sharing your compliment and for asking a really good question. Lance & Patrick.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to me !!!!!! I absolutely Love your videos !!!!!! Such great stuff and you guys are great !!!!!!
Im a beginner watchmaker and am 5 months in. And your videos are very helpful to me !!!!!
Im hoping you will be doing more videos !!!!!
Ive just gotten my first watchmakers lathe and Im practicing on it daily !!!!!
@@sonnymoorehouse1941 Just remain patient operate carefully and always view others that have more knowledge like we continue to do here at Active Atom. We will be making more videos right now we are making our first design non client hired product, we will begin sharing that in the end of this year. Thank you for sharing Lance & Patrick.
Hi Lance and Patrick, what happens to these lathes? Do they get sold or are they kept for a museum? If they get sold what sort of price would they go for?
Just asking because I’ve been looking on eBay and some of them go for a stupid amount of money…
Thanks in advance George 🇬🇧
Hello and welcome to Active Atom with is a GREAT question. We rebuild these machines here in house from the ground up having the actual parts materials and paints as well as that of the knowledge to perform these tasks for such a demanding and very precision machine as the Levin & Son name warrants. New and used Levin which is one of the 4 model or so we utilize here making parts for watch movements and timing devices each day it is a real joy when that time arrive as it had in the resent past 2 or 3 years to rebuild these fine machines for a coming 2 or 3 decades. These are used daily some are allotted to the museum, but we have in the coming May 03, 2023 when we turn 30 years old here at Active Atom have never sold but 1 draw bar for a Levin Lathe (that was to a friend of ours for many years) that we had made a half a dozen new ones for our vintage Levin open pulley style lathe to have and utilize for the next 20 to 30 years or so.
Levin and Son, the company, has risen the prices too high for us and likely for many (especially these two desert hermits) others to afford as it, the company was sold to a new owner some years back that is when the prices and various other issues began to arise to our attention, see Levin & Son is located about 105 miles into Los Angles California from where it is we are located in the upper Mojave Desert in the state. Thank you, and hey, if given the chance and having the affordability we Patrick and Lance would buy Levin & Son the company tomorrow just so you know our thoughts Fumingzeus. Thank you for being here with us, we are thankful to have you. Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom thank you very much for your quick response🙂👍🏻
Hi,
Thanks for the video.
What oils are you using? Thanks.
Hi mosfet500, thank you for the kind words about our video we love this G Boley Lathe so much and we so want to show it making parts soon.
Two oils are utilized around here, one is a general use coating to prevent things like flash rusting and smooth operation on the ways and the like named NyOil the finest mineral oil produced globally.
The spindle oil we utilize for this lathe in that video is Mobil Velocite No. 6 available at places like MSC, McMaster-Carr etc.
Please stay tuned we have been aways for a bit but are nearing the release of a series of great shows offering up a product we have been making and filming some of.
Thank you, Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom Thanks guys, the #6 is lighter than the #10. On my Austrian Maximat lathe the instructions said use Castrol Hyspin AWS 46, that was 40 years ago. I just checked the spindle in that lathe and it's still under a tenth with no gumming, although I do change it out every couple of years. I'll try the Velocite 6 or maybe the 10 as I rarely go above 3k rpms.
Enjoy your different perspectives and delivery - fun channel!
By the way, just picked up a very well kept G Boley myself, not the cheapest lathe but we'll see how the spindle and tailstock line up, that's usually a tricky one to get right.🙂
Rob
Where are you guys…hope everyone is ok
What do you use to clean/restore the nylon or Bakelite?
how much lathe
Dear Lance and Patrick
With the Trump administration and the covid-19 pandemic I was fearing for you .
I made enquiries how to Contact the F.B.I. to check on you !
Looking forward to all your new videos
Christopher from Down Under
Hello down under, hi Christopher, we are fine you see we already live our lives (our choice) like we are on a lockdown already, it is the rest of the world we feared how they would deal with things and they seemed to of handled things well. We have added so many new machines and tools to begin sharing in use while we machine parts, we cannot wait. Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
You guys sure do a lot of talking. Personally I don't need to hear what you're going to do before you do anything and you can describe all those neat little pieces as you're. Applying them or assembling them.
Hi we totally understand I wantAvote.
We value all comments, talk a lot we sure do, can we share why we talk so much, While Lance has in the CB Radio world he is titled the California Talker (hint hint) it is the official FCC radio license handle for us.
We also live together Patrick and I best of friends since 1975 and we also live in a very rural high desert Southern California town named Yucca Valley in the south western end of the Mojave Desert surrounded by many gold and silver mines long past there production days, so you see, none the less, those tumble weeds, blowing sands and wild desert animals do not make for too much the conversation so we like to share via the social media outlets adorn the masses these days. We have been doing what it is we do here at Active Atom for 30 years after May 3rd arrived and has sense pasted. We only have this way to share and yes we sure do talk a lot as it is all we have and while it is a lot there is a volume on your computer as our videos and shows are very visual as well.
We make these videos to cover all levels of rebuilding and assembling skills globally so we have to walk at a pace to cover those not at your level and perhaps others at even higher levels and make it work for all to allow our educational and show videos to be effective and that is the best answer we can share.
We sure thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us and know this, we are proud you are here sharing and viewing our videos them and you matter.
We hope to return uploading videos in the near future as we do enjoy making them and sharing more of our machinery and tool so many more to come even two products we are currently making to share and sale through our store at ActiveAtom.com in the coming year or so.
Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
What a chaotic video. Lots of uninteresting details, could have been watchable.... but is definitely not
Good to see you back
Thank you Adrian, we sure feel loved by so many. We have to share while we did get a lot of work done around the shop and we acquired so much to share with you all, there comes a time we needed to return after 18 months of not being around doing some sharing making shows and such, thank you for the kind words. Lance & Patrick.
1st time viewer truly awesome 2 see
Master Craftsman at work,
Searching 4 Watchmakers Lathe
and came across your video.
Enjoyed it...Love the Music 🖖✌👌
As an Inventor/Industrial Designer
I have always had desire to learn this craft
Do you guys do special projects ?
PS: Can't wait to see the
Sprinkles on top 2
Thank
Drzigzag
🖖✌👌
Hi Bobby Y, we welcome you to our operation here in the high desert of California. We do special projects in our past for others, however we are thinking of making one of our designs from our near 30 years come May 03, 2023 into a real product and offer it through our channel and website eventually, however do know this we move really slow and we are talking some time from now so for now we restore our machines and tools add more capabilities and seek to have new friends through this social media outlet like we now consider you one of our newest friends, we both thank you for your very kind words and for coming here to see what it is we are offering. Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom thanks Lance & Patrick.
Good to see you back Lad's . Cheers .
Hi Max fellow RUclips creator, we love hearing from our fellow hard working creators, it is nice to red a set of kind words from you Max, we both are thankful and hey Max congratulations on the new shop as you build it out. Lance & Patrick.
Back with a bang, it was certainly worth the wait. Good to have you guys back :)
Hi Paul, we are both so excited to be here, last week we uploaded our introduction video on the main channel page and it too was well received even though it was not posted as a share by RUclips. We are glad this return show was well liked by you. We sure are driven when we read the kind words of so many of the people, many we know via RUclips, this is really cool. Thank you again, Lance & Patrick.
YAY! You're back on the air....
Hi Dave we are gladly back, wait until you start to see things going on here. A new video coming in about a week followed by another a few days later then a delay as we complete some work here, it has been really busy here (no film time but lots of completed good work) as the economy is roaring for us and we are so thankful to have it. We thought we might be doomed but then things looked up and up they went. Thank you for the file sticker complete proudly being displayed going forward and hey thank you for being here with us we are happy to call you our fellow California friend Dave. L&P
Hi L & P, are we going to see some gear cutting on the G Boley at some point? That would be really special to see! Lathe Boy
Yes we shall make some parts at last if we have to refurbish/rebuild one more vintage machine here we are both going to explode. Thank you for sharing these thoughts bout cutting gears the gears, because we need them to produce our product so yes we will and yes we will film to share this event here. Lance & Patrick.
Active atom, hello! it is good to see you guys posting again! that boley that moves the carrage is beautiful. i will be watching this playlist closely. if you get in the mood to give away stickers, i would be most happy to display your sticker on my tiny channel! poppy's workshop says HI
Yes hello UFO EMMA station located along a dark remote tree lined rea somewhere across this GREAT country we each call home. We would be honored to send the stickers a twin set to you for your channel so please email us at info@activeatom.com
E-MAIL@@ActiveAtome-mail on the way
stickers will float the boat! poppy
@29:20 The only thing worse than losing a part is to have a few pieces left!
"Wonder where this tiny spring was supposed to go?"
Well said and hi Stan, oh the spring as watchmakers we know the small parts all to well as clearly do you. We tried rubber absorbing mats below under and around our watchmaker desk and to no prevail missing those parts that fly off the workbench. The only thing the years have taught us comes from our mums, it is lean over the table when eating or when working with making small parts holding them movements assemblies or disassembles, that seems to be it. Thank you for coming by watching and sharing your kind thoughts. Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom Was going to suggest an electromagnet to capture those wayward tiny parts, but not all parts are ferritic. Put on my McGiver hat and came up with, are you ready for it?
POLYESTER FIBERFILL!
Fluff it out to resemble the 'snow illusion' used by retail merchants in displays around Christmas shopping season.
Hear me out. Before you push the idea aside concerned that those tiny fibers will contaminate the workplace, I may have that figured out, too! In a room or an area distant from the workshop fluff up the fiberfill to an acceptable density in the shape of a large enough circular (or square, rectangular, etc) shape for the workbench and lightly spray with a fixative, such as Scotch spray adhesive or even hairspray. Let me know if something this simple sounds feasible.
Aside from that idea, maybe an acrylic box large enough to accommodate the work with openings for your hands similar to a plastigrit blasting box used to delicately remove rust. Or even combine the two ideas?
EDIT: Just hit me. An even better medium would be the 'spiderweb' decor used around Halloween! Longer fiber staple length may possibly eliminate the need to apply fixative! Damn! Sometimes I ask myself "Why didn't I think of that?".
O.K., rant over.
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Hello guys👍
Hi Steve, thank you for sharing a thought, your channel is doing so well you are well liked and we enjoy knowing you. We love your new shop efforts watched many of the videos on that build but we truly must share our love for Elizbeth and her squirrel because see Steve, we have desert squirrel's here and we feed them the quail (California state bird), rabbits and the other nice birds each morning but I cannot hold one, so we are both jealous of her ability to have such a fun friend, thank you for liking our work here. Lance & Patrick.
Hey Guys, good to see and hear you again! And with a VERY cool set of little machines, to boot! Those are beautiful lathes, they just don't seem to have that kind of class anymore in what we normally see in machinery. Maybe modern watchmaker lathes do, but not what the "rest of us" play with, lol!
Hello to our friend at the northeast of us here, you are the kindest speaking RUclips machinist category person we know Everett. We have this chance to once again thank you for discovering that machine you shared to see if we were interested a while back and we sure thank you for thinking about us Everett. It is true that the no longer make this level of manual watchmaker machines today they do make some really cool one we love this Kern Pyramid 5 axis watchmaker multi cnc machine center mill and a Tornos cnc Swiss style lathe line both makers are top level the G. Boley of these modern times we think and one of them is on our radar as CNC programmers we just would love to earn one someday. Thank you again for liking our pair of lathes there will be 1 or 2 more parts of this build and share to wrap it up Everett, glad you are well thank you for sharing with us and we are thankful to have you in our lives. Lance & Patrick
Yea, what Everett said!!! That's my comment!!!
@@dannywilsher4165 Hi Danny, we really like Everett here, so you and us, we feel are good company, thank you for stopping by. Lance & Patrick.
Yes! You're back. I'm looking forward to seeing these lathes work, especially now that I have a lathe of my own.
Hello JohnSL, you have a great channel great machinery and you do neat work, we enjoy your efforts and thank you for stopping in and saying hi and welcoming us back into the RUclips community of makers.
Good to see you both back....enjoyed and looking forward to seeing the units in operation
Hi a great top of the morning too you, figured you would be hanging out at that channel that is rebuilding that Chuckee 10EE with the taper cutter attachment he is detailed and I was right we see you comment often LOL. Thank you for coming by, we miss being here after 18 months away, and you will see the candy video we call it the attachment nd accessory video for the G. Boley say in Part 3 but we have to make the idler pulley to use it first in the Part 2 show but we will get there, we love your BBQ shares once in the while so you know they make us hungry here. Lance & Patrick.
Hello again, you two gentlemen, as usual, a fantastic video, the explanations, the filming, the details, the clarity,
the filming and the soundtrack music. All to make up a great educational watchmaker lathe video.
I don't want to sound like a creep but I am only just getting into the Watchmaking lathe groove and recently bought a vintage
Putra lathe, which was used a great deal in WW2 to make lots of small precise items for the RAF /ARMY/NAVY.
In nice condition. Anyway, keep it coming lads, my regards, Colin, the UK.
No you are never a creep, you are interesting in advanced watchmaking and the machinery and tools that achieve those goals are a story within each as you are sharing with us. Thank you for enjoying our efforts and for being here with us on our journey taking place from the high-desert of California in the USA. Lance & Patrick. P.S. Will look in to your Putra Lathe to see what it is about that ids what we love doing here research all the time.
Beautiful lathes! Great to see you back guys. Looking forward to the next video. Cheers, Craig
Hi Craig, hey we said hello over at Emma's new place. Thank you for watching and liking our video we had been gone for 18 months.
We love these lathes, they are a pair of great German made examples, one from the early times at the G. Boley company and the other the rare one, that (guessing here) was likely an attempt to add features so sales would continue while watchmaking demand was likely dipping in the current economic times.
Craig stay well, and hey in our next show out we offer up an American made precision and patriotic pair of items to one lucky winner, so hope you can come back and enter it is really easy no gimmick no cost to the winner what so ever and this will be our first ever giveaway. Than k you again stay well, Lance & Patrick.
P.S. winner winner chicken dinner LOL.
@@ActiveAtom thanks both. I will certainly be back and entering into the draw! A bit of mystery makes it very interesting. I noticed you had been gone for a while. Hoped you guys were ok and had seen you in the comments sections of other videos, so I knew you hadn't dropped off the perch 😁 Looking forward to seeing more. Thanks, Craig 👍
Amazing! I'm so glad you guys are back. The fit and finish of your work is out of this world. Cheers
Hi Joe and fellow RUclipsr, that comment means a lot to us knowing you and your channels fine work, work we often enjoy watching as you bring the dead back to life along with a good story to accompany the refurbishing projects. Thank you for the kind words and warm welcome. Lance & Patrick.
Welcome back, Gentlemen! Those Boley lathes are amazing, and this video did not disappoint. I actually own a Pratt & Whitney #3 bench lathe with a rare chasing attachment, but with only one master thread.
Hi Daniel, yes they are known to be on your fine lathe benchtop size and up but not on a single arm watchmaker lathe this thing is so small we think that makes it even more cool being tiny like that. Pratt & Whitney #3 that is a great lathe it can make parts all the day long. Having the thread chasing is a giant bonus but you know that for sure. Thank you for sharing and for the warm welcome, enjoy that P&W lathe we love the maker a lot Lance & Patrick.
Welcome back.
Well thanks to you we know what a longcaster is and what that talent skill is, always learning here. We are both very happy to be back as well, there is a bit to share still to come. Lance & Patrick.
Very very cool.
Hi, and a GREAT hello Matthew, the machine this G. Boley is a great one we selected to share, we have so many more share through showing and even more to show cutting parts doing what it is they do really well and accurate, making sweet well designed watchmaker replacement parts though in their glory days they were the production machines, even having per part counters, so the operator could keep accurate counts of the parts yielded during their work shift. Thank you for being here with us Matthew, we are happy to have you. Lance & Patrick.
Hello my friends, I just found your channel and can't wait to see what you make next! Please don't keep us waiting for too long, you do really good work!
Hey hello Riley, we are so happy to read such kind words on a time of well unusual times would be putting things mildly. We are sorry to have been working so many days and hours filming so little but we had to bring up our machine parts sizes to larger parts machining and fine finishing so much new equipment and so many upgrades we have a whole world to us we must share with you and others as soon as possible. Thank you again for being here with is and for your patients. Lance & Patrick.
Good to see you guys. I love the shoulder patches on the smocks. The butcher block bases are sweet. Looking forward to more videos.
Hi Vernon, we just wrote a nice comment reply to Steven about how we use and how often we use those flat ground stone pair in the rebuilding of our machinery and some tools that they came from you through him as a gift we won, we will never forget that and we do get reminded as we use them each week, they are a real help around here really they are Vernon. God bless the USA and each and every one of us is what that patch was added for Vernon. Your loving pair of friends in this rural dusty desert town we call home. lance & Patrick.
What a wonderful channel I have just come across. I was searching for a lathe, I wanted to take up a new hobby in my latter years, and I found you guys 😊
Thank you for the bit of history into this piece of art. 👍🏻 subscribed
Well Fumingzeus, you have arrived at the right place if you are looking to a new hobby making micro machined watch movement sized parts one offs or in light production we will be sharing it all once we get back to making videos been busy working at making parts of late but hoping to change this and continue sharing once again. Thank you for the very kind words and we are so happy you discovered our channel. Also thank you for subscribing enjoy what we have filmed and released new videos coming. Lance & Patrick.
Thanks for the video L&P. Love the way you bring back the lathes to better than new condition. Keep safe and stay well.
Well them are really high expectations Colin, the thought to surpass those fine German engineering qualities is a mission to us, we sure strive to match and in some cases exceed these goals here in the Workshop, this is our whole life doing this work, we are proud to do it be able to perform tit and do it on camera during our shows Colin. We are thankful you stopped in shared these really well supper very kind loving words about our efforts we both thank you very much, we actually miss sharing these things with you all. Lance & Patrick.
Thanks Guys! I have been anxiously awaiting the reveal of the project that has had you off the You Tube for a year! Well Done! I look forward to the demonstration under power, and understanding how the Boley threading attachment works. That machine is like a sparkling piece of jewelry.
Hi Jeff a fellow RUclipsr we often watch though our TV. Wishing our friend to the north of us is doing well. We have been gone 18 months and Jeff we actually missed sharing though we did buy too many new machines and tools rebuilt and repaired many tools we miss sharing our efforts with others, so here we are. We have to make an idler pulley system to operate all of the accessories and the attachments so we will likely make that in Part 2 and then in say Part 3 we will share the already completed G. Boley tools and that is thousands of intricate components that have each been painstakingly (well we felt no pan we love each part of all of our assemblies here) refurbished but a bit of luck Jeff, these accessories and attachments were in great shape so we are thinking of calling that Part 3 the candy show because all of these tools are so sweet. Jeff thank you for being here with us we enjoy knowing you and your channel. Lance & Patrick.
@@ActiveAtom Look forward to 2 & 3
Everything is sparkling clean, laid out precisely and mirror polished! Top notch job! Just a pleasure to watch!
Hi Dainius, it is a really clean shop that allows for really clean machinery and tool rebuilding's as we say, there we go preaching again cannot help it. We like to read your comment about these efforts, it helps us be thankful we have something good to you we are sharing, that matters to us here. Thank you again for being so kind in sharing your thoughts with us. Lance & Patrick.
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Thank you, Marek, looks to be you enjoyed our shows we are very happy to have you here, thank you for sharing your thought with us as well. Lance & Patrick.