I never knew there was an app for a protractor. Should have known, there is an app for everything these days. Nice use of the app. I will store this in my memory bank for future use. Thanks, Winky!!!!!
Great idea. I used it to make an indexing plate. Don't have a smart phone, so used a Trend angle finder box (like you can use to set a tablesaw blade). Worked perfectly thanks.
Damn I love it when you get creative, it's a lot different than the usual solutions. In my case, I made an expanding mandrel and purchased a 60 tooth change gear to fit... Think of all the useful factors you can get from 60... Especially since I can drive my south bend gears with a 6 TPI acme screw like a worm...
Thanks! I also made an expanding mandrel with a 100 tooth saw for making dials for the lathe and an indexing wheel that has many combinations. However, I think in most cases a 48 tooth gear would be very adequate. That covers 2,3,4,6,8 etc.
It does work!!!! Thanks a lot man!! I made it with a car movil stand 😂 and I turned a conic wood stick to make it lock on the lathe. I got to make a chuck holder to make it steady while using. The app is very usfull cause you can cero it any time. Again thanks a lot to share your knowledge!🎉🎉
On my south bend 9a, I've put a bar on my 4 jaw chuck and used my Erick miracle point gauge #900 to find many degrees. So long as you always use the same 2 jaws it works out fantastic.
That is Brilliant! I will be definitely downloading that app! I think I will make a more sturdy phone holder though using an expanding mandrill in the spindle. I should be able to index any number of hole patterns. I have already made the toolpost drill but I think I will also make one to spot drill on the work face... the sky's the limit. You have opened a box of worms in my brain. I can't afford a spindex etc but now I might not need one! Thank you so much for sharing Winky.
It seems to be perfect but it has to be dependent on existing hardware in the phone. Kind of amazing this hardware exists in a phone. Did the phone maker plan for this?
If you only want three holes at 120 degrees you can use the jaws on the three jaw chuck, use a short piece of steel and turn the chuck until it jams between the lathe bed and the chuck jaw ,repeat for the other two jaws. do the same for 90degrees with a 4jaw chuck.
Yoink!.....Idea stolen by yours truly!....Thanks for that! I've been mucking around with circular saw blades when all I needed was my phone! Keep up the good work!
I have lathe/mill combo, a fantastic add on. And if want better glue,, try rapidfuse. It's a thick car gel that's made for wood. Clamp a minute and your good for light stuff, it's fully cured in 20.
I am very impressed with not only your fabrication skills but especially with your ability to create the type of devices which suit your various needs. Just out of curiosity (and respect of course) do you have a background in design and machine work or are you just naturally talented....or perhaps both!? Best wishes and stay healthy.
Well it all started when I was 4 years old.... Ha, just kidding but thanks for the great comment. I've been into woodworking all my life but always had basic metal working tools minus a lathe and mill. I retired just over a year ago but ran (or worked on) a web offset printing press most my life. Then after I designed a few creative cures for ongoing problems on the presses they gave a job trouble shooting press problems. It fit my natural abilities perfectly. I ended up designing at least 100 machine improvements, learning some CAD and a lot about machine work. I actually bought my lathe so that I could fabricate parts at home. We had a few top notch machinist at work and I learned a lot from them but sometimes they didn't have time to work on my less pressing projects... you know, there was always an emergency press break down that took priority.
I like how you finished the South Bend Lathe, it looks very authentic to period, plus it just looks great. Using the Protractor App on the Phone is an excellent approach to setting angles both fr the Lathe and the mill. I would suggest a metal clamp with machined surfaces so it can be easily used on the Mill.
HA! Got it. I've had other freak out when they saw blue smoke while drilling. To some degree this is not a problem but some seem the think it's terrible. Thanks for watching! (and explaining)
@@WinkysWorkshop you do need a short level though. I use a scales level which is about 8" long but to compensate, it has magnets in the back which simplifies things considerably.
When I saw the protractor app on the phone, it struck me that the app could be superior to the digital angle finder which has a single purpose. By having a metal clamp holder for the smartphone could have many more uses especially if the clamp is designed around Machinists tasks and other measurement challenges. My other thought is the Lathe Indexer. why not an index wheel that is about 2 or three feet in diameter. The degree of additional accuracy is immense. I read some where but for the life of me I cannot remember where. The English used a similar method but used an index wheel mounted horizontal driving gears to provide an accuracy level approaching todays optical standards. There is a ton of information in the early Victorian machinist related books. This is the first documented report of the Tangential Lathe tool which looks very similar to the Eccentric Engineering Diamond Tool Holder.
I made this gear indexer that works great within limits. I need to reduce the clearance in the pin to improve it. ruclips.net/video/xauJcjrINy0/видео.html
I make plenty of blue smoke. Usually with carbide and it doesn't hurt anything. Same with HSS to some degree although if you go too far the results are not so good. This is mostly due to my drill press not going slow enough. But... I didn't see any smoke in this video. Where was it?
Definitely! Although the phone app seem to work just as well. I compared my phone to a fairly expensive angle finder at work at it was exactly the same. It might vary with phones however.
Seems like you need a way the lock the soindle in position as I found the phone protractor very sensitive and I'm sure it would drift off your setting. At least my spindle would.
I think that depends on what you want to do. Simply spotting a hole probably would not move the spindle on my lathe but this is certainly something to be aware of.
Very interesting ! But for 90° intervals, just use a position stop to rotate a 4-jaw chuck to. For 120° and 60° intervals, use a 3-jaw chuck. Actually, dad fitted a protractor to the back end of the spindle - I need to remove it to access the gear-train to the power feeds ! But the obvious question is - why not use the mill !
This is just one of many ways. I have a 48 tooth gear I used for most things along with a tool post drill. A rotary table is more accurate but for most things the gear works great. I also use a 100 tooth saw blade for dials.
Hahaha... Thanks. That reminds me of a time I was turning a 3 foot length of 3/8 all thread. It was doing fine for about 30 seconds and then started whipping around. Scared the heck out of me.
I like it! I like the way you think, I like the way you do things, I like the results you get. I am an old guy who" used'a could" But can't anymore. You obviously make the best of what you have and improve what you've got to make it better than original. While I no longer have access to a shop in which to make chips, sawdust, smoke,or things I've thought of. I would like to use a CAD computer program that produces nice clean 2D and 3D drawings you often show in your presentations. Please sir, what computer drafting program do you use to get your drawings??
I'm using a 2016 version of Sketchup (pro version). In the past I would have recommended it but they got greedy. Sketchup used to be free for home use but now they are subscription based. I don't mind paying for software and even yearly is okay if it's good software and a good price but $300 a year is well beyond ridiculous. I think you can still find the 2017 version free on the internet to download... might be worth trying to find. I think it's a little easier than other CAD although I've never seen a truly easy cad program.
When I learned mechanical drafting in the 1940s in Junior High School, we had T-squares and triangles, and we drew little mutilated blocks on eight-and-a-half by 11 sheets of paper. When I went to Texas A&M University in 1961 the College of Engineering used VEMCO, parallel arm drafting machines with a protractor head. The architecture Department used a long parallel bar on Big D size sheets. When I graduated with a terminal degree in industrial education and technology in 1968 there were no computers and therefore no CAD drawing and all of the shop work was done with careful measurement, sketches and the touch of the Master's Hands on the controls. In 2001 when I did mentoring for a Magnet High School in Amarillo Texas, I had contact with pre-engineering students who were enrolled in a program called Project Lead the Way which I think was a national initiative at that time. I had students in their senior year for an internship experience after they had completed three years which included Autodesk Inventor. I quickly found out that I had to go to the local community college and take a night class in auto desk I 2010 when Over the next 10 years, I continued to use the annual upgrades in the inventor series until Autodesk decided to eliminate the free version to educators and I was forced to consider Fusion 360 for a fee! By that time I had hundreds of inventor digital part drawings, assemblies, STL's and comfortable experiences that I could no longer access. I had experimented with SketchUp previously but never really considered moving away from my comfort zone within INVENTOR. Now that I have really retired and have time I have tried to start over again with everything from Tinker cad, Vcarve, Fusion 360, the new and improved Trimble SketchUp, leading to dissatisfaction and frustration. I guess at age 86 I'm too old to start over. I enjoy watching your program following your threads and watching the touch of the master Which is far better than I ever was when I taught beginning machine shop. Thanks for the prompt reply I have a Winkie's shortcut icon on my desktop and frequently click on it for a relaxing hour or so. I'm frequently reminded of the dream sequence in George C Scott's portrayal of Patton in the movie of the same name. Patton is sleeping in an armchair with a copy of Rommel's book - Desert Tank Warfare - Where a Panoramic widescreen full of burned out German tanks lie smoldering in the heat. Scott utters the line attributed to his character," Rummel, you SOB, I Read Your Book." As an honest expression of praise- Winky, We watch your RUclips channel with great admiration.
@@wallacejohnston9059 Wallace, all I can say is Wow! Thank you so much for your great comment and appreciation. I think you are giving me far too much credit. I learned Sketchup and still struggle with it (although I do successfully utilize it). I tried auto cad and solid works and was totally lost. I have zero formal education and my abilities in math are somewhat limited. Where I excel is creativity. I can visualize anything machinal and understand the very basic math and physics needed. Beyond that Google is my best friend. Ha. Google is kind of like CAD in a funny way. It give solutions. I will admit that creativity is just is important as knowledge. When somebody has both you get a super star. Google and cad help me a lot :o)
@@WinkysWorkshop Thanks for the quick reply on a Saturday night (7:33 PM here in Essex Junction, VT - EST. Where ar4 you located? Where did the nickname WINKY come from? What have you done before you became a Movie Star?
@@wallacejohnston9059 Movie star! Haha... you're funny. Honestly, I'm in a continuous state mild shock that my videos are so popular. I do think my videos with a few exceptions have improved over the years as I learn what I'm doing with machine work and video editing. Plus thanks to comments from people like you my self confidence gets a little boost. I Grew up in near Seattle and moved to Kentucky when I was 22 years old. I've worked in printing all my life it seems. I worked 39 yrs for the web offset plant here in KY before I retired 5 yrs ago. We printed high volume magazines. Most the presses (14 of them) took up the space of a standard basket ball court although a bit longer. Intimidating, complicated and fascinating at the same time. I worked on of ran a press most my career but the last 15 years I had a job as a trouble shooter for problem areas of the machines... or at least that is the way is started. It morphed into a lot of significant equipment redesign. For the most part I loved and it was very rewarding. To redesign a machine and watch it function much better was amazing. I was "full on" for about 10 or 12 years and then I kind of hit a wall. All my answers ran out. I was so glad to retire!!! Anyway... One of the supervisors over maintenance started calling me Winky because it sounded like part of my last name. I can hear him saying it now.... Somebody would "Josh, the stacker is not working right" and Josh would say, "Go get Winky!" So I did an engineers job without the pay. Of course in many way I was not qualified as an engineer but the fact remains, I fixed hundred of problems the engineers could not or would not fix.
.1 of a degree is not bad, I worked out using a cad program that a line drawn at .1 from the datum line equated to something like 10mm (if I remember correctly) away from true at a distance of 1 kilometre. So that is negligible for the home handyman.
Just checked my calculations, for accuracy and I was out a little. Over a distance of 100 meters, it is 17cm off.. I still wouldnt be concered, maybe with .2degrees but not .1 :) :)
Hello sir, another brilliant idea to simplify the divisions on lathe. Could you enlighten me please. In 3'.02, for what reasons, did you not drill in the center of the wooden plate in order to glue the wooden axis there? Can I hope for a response. Good continuation and good day. P. K.
Good question. It really doesn't matter but I didn't want the button on the upper part of my cell phone to be in the holder. By offsetting the hole the phone was roughly centered on the axis of my spindle.
@@WinkysWorkshop Hello sir, taking into account your arguments, I mounted my tablet on a wood support like you and connected the support to the spindle outlet, via a screwed aluminum part. The tablet is centered on the spindle axis and the use of the protractor is fabulous. Thank you again for your sharing of ideas. P. K. (French)
Thank you it looks good and seems to be durable. I may do like wise as I have a high humidity issue and my pulleys always have a light sheen of rust. I can not oil them because they slip
Hello Winky mate.. I bought a drill combo from VEVOR. I'm waiting on them to arrive now but I'm looking forward to seeing how they do bcos it was a great deal for 20V Brushless Drill and Impact driver combi set.. They should be perfect enough for my needs and were only 95 euros.. I wanted to ask u if u would ask Vevor to let u do some more reviews on their tools bcos I'm defo interested in their Belt/Disc sander/grinder 375W machine for 132.99 euros.. I want to know how decent it is before buying it but I guess for that price u cannot go wrong and it would or should be perfect for my small shop.. U obviously have better tools that this in ur shop my bro but It would be cool to see what u actually think of it.. Enjoying watching the videos tonight before I get back at it again tomorrow and carry on building out my little shop for a buindle of storage. I'm at the mercy of the weather here bcos it likes to rain when u least expect it man.. LOL Irish weather is a nightmare esp on ur day off when u need to cut 8X4 sheet goods outside in the yard.. haha! Take care mate and take it easy..
Thats a great idea indeed. Few months back I noticed I could lockup my logan lathe with the back gears (carefully) to give me 3 and 6 divisions, possibly more. Also I needed to index 6 sides on a shaper project. So I made a wooden hex ring for the part to set in to allow indexing ruclips.net/video/63h2vlQVAr8/видео.html worked like a champ on that job. Its amazing how often I find wood can assist in metal working projects, without the cost/time of messing with metal scraps
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Done apprentice ship in engineering in uk, guess I I've learned more from your videos, Again another simple but brilliant idea, from UK Coventry 🇬🇧👍.
Thanks! That's an amazing compliment.
Great video, you have an amazing gift for thinking outside the box and for being self reliant.
Thanks!
Ingenious, simply Ingenious. Thank you. For the both the indexing and the tool post drill idea.
Very welcome!
I never knew there was an app for a protractor. Should have known, there is an app for everything these days. Nice use of the app. I will store this in my memory bank for future use. Thanks, Winky!!!!!
No problem! Thanks!
Love the, what, 100 year old lathe and the 2020 phone app. Great use of the best, simplest tool for the job.
Yeah, a 1931 model South Bend. Thanks.
Necessity, the mother of invention. Really good idea. I will have to try that.
Thanks!
Cheater, no machining of the lathe, no mods to the lathe. Winky that was genius, fast and accurate.
Thx for sharing.
Thanks you sir!
Pas bête du tout ! Bravo pour l'idée !
Et merci pour le partage !!!!
Not stupid at all ! Well done for the idea !
And thank you for sharing !!!!
Thanks for the translation and comment!
That's pretty clever Winky. Should come in handy some day.
Thanks Andy
Gday, this is a brilliant idea, I don’t have a cross drill jig but something I should look at building, thanks for sharing, Cheers Matty
Glad you enjoyed it - Yeah the drill jig is handy.
Great idea. I used it to make an indexing plate. Don't have a smart phone, so used a Trend angle finder box (like you can use to set a tablesaw blade). Worked perfectly thanks.
Sounds great!
Fantastic Idea...headed out to get my app right now, cheers from Florida, Paul
Free too! Thanks - also I have a gear indexer. 28 tooth gives you all the common 2, 3 and 4 combinations
Damn I love it when you get creative, it's a lot different than the usual solutions. In my case, I made an expanding mandrel and purchased a 60 tooth change gear to fit... Think of all the useful factors you can get from 60... Especially since I can drive my south bend gears with a 6 TPI acme screw like a worm...
Thanks! I also made an expanding mandrel with a 100 tooth saw for making dials for the lathe and an indexing wheel that has many combinations. However, I think in most cases a 48 tooth gear would be very adequate. That covers 2,3,4,6,8 etc.
Thanks for the protractor app info. I never thunk about looking for one!
No problem!! It works great.
It does work!!!! Thanks a lot man!! I made it with a car movil stand 😂 and I turned a conic wood stick to make it lock on the lathe. I got to make a chuck holder to make it steady while using. The app is very usfull cause you can cero it any time. Again thanks a lot to share your knowledge!🎉🎉
Very true. I'm now using a 48 tooth gear mounted in the spindle but the protractor works great.
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed.
On my south bend 9a, I've put a bar on my 4 jaw chuck and used my Erick miracle point gauge #900 to find many degrees. So long as you always use the same 2 jaws it works out fantastic.
Cool!
Now that is just brilliant. It makes this phone worth while now!
Easy in a pinch for sure, thanks
Bloody good idea sir! Well done and thanks for posting. This is my first visit and I'm going to subscribe right now!
Thanks and welcome aboard.
Like your humor ,and videos
Thanks... you must be referring to unplugging your lathe. I can see myself forgetting about the phone on the end of the spindle.
Great idea! I use a magnetic digital angle gauge stuck to one of the chuck jaws.
That's a great idea! I like that better!
That app could have some handy work in the mill too! Great Idea!!!
Definitely!
That is Brilliant! I will be definitely downloading that app! I think I will make a more sturdy phone holder though using an expanding mandrill in the spindle. I should be able to index any number of hole patterns. I have already made the toolpost drill but I think I will also make one to spot drill on the work face... the sky's the limit. You have opened a box of worms in my brain. I can't afford a spindex etc but now I might not need one!
Thank you so much for sharing Winky.
Your welcome. The app I like best is called "Protractor EXA Tools".
@@WinkysWorkshop Thank's, I'll look out for it.
@@WinkysWorkshop I've got the app! now to build a holder...
Awesome idea
It's a quick and easy fix, thanks
Great stuff. I had no idea it was accurate.
It seems to be perfect but it has to be dependent on existing hardware in the phone. Kind of amazing this hardware exists in a phone. Did the phone maker plan for this?
Nice and simple, great job.
Thanks!
Great idea very simple Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching Harold!
You are so welcome!
If you only want three holes at 120 degrees you can use the jaws on the three jaw chuck, use a short piece of steel and turn the chuck until it jams between the lathe bed and the chuck jaw ,repeat for the other two jaws. do the same for 90degrees with a 4jaw chuck.
Great idea. I've actually done this quite a few times.
Now I know why I was saving that old iPhone..Lol. Great idea Mark 👍👍
Thanks, I can't say I've used it much but its good in a pinch and very accurate.
Another neat app for the smart phone. I downloaded one the other day to measure distance for me. It is close enough for estimating.
Phones are amazing!
absolutely brilliant
sometimes simple is better, Thanks
Genius idea! I think I'll make one like it. Thanks for the help!
Thanks!
Yoink!.....Idea stolen by yours truly!....Thanks for that! I've been mucking around with circular saw blades when all I needed was my phone!
Keep up the good work!
Glad I could help, Yoink?
@@WinkysWorkshop Yeah like grabbing something...Did I misspell it?
@@sparkiekosten5902 = I have no idea on the spelling but thanks for clarifying.
Brilliant idea.
Thanks
I have lathe/mill combo, a fantastic add on. And if want better glue,, try rapidfuse. It's a thick car gel that's made for wood. Clamp a minute and your good for light stuff, it's fully cured in 20.
Cool, thanks. I'll check it out!
Lorch 1957 ... hmmm.. just like mine ;-) watchmakers lather from '57.
Very handy. Thanks.
You're welcome!
On the back of the through hole on the old hendey lathe at work there's a gauge and pointer used for multiple start threads. That would do the trick
True
Absolutely great idea... I will shamelessly copy it :-)
Go for it!
That's actually two great ideas thanks.
Thanks! I used the tool post drill a lot but prefer my gear indexer for most stuff. ruclips.net/video/xauJcjrINy0/видео.html
again,a belated happy birthday,be safe my friend......
Ha... Thanks Ray!
Very ingenious idea that works perfect.
Thank you very much!
Thanks that’s amazing
Amazing idea.
Thank you! Cheers!
I was thinking of doing this with my electronic angle gage (clinometer), the phone is a great idea too
Yeah... it's amazing but I think the phone is just as accurate.
What a super duper idea , have to get a smart phone
Smart phone are great. You will love the camera!
I am very impressed with not only your fabrication skills but especially with your ability to create the type of devices which suit your various needs. Just out of curiosity (and respect of course) do you have a background in design and machine work or are you just naturally talented....or perhaps both!? Best wishes and stay healthy.
Well it all started when I was 4 years old.... Ha, just kidding but thanks for the great comment. I've been into woodworking all my life but always had basic metal working tools minus a lathe and mill. I retired just over a year ago but ran (or worked on) a web offset printing press most my life. Then after I designed a few creative cures for ongoing problems on the presses they gave a job trouble shooting press problems. It fit my natural abilities perfectly. I ended up designing at least 100 machine improvements, learning some CAD and a lot about machine work. I actually bought my lathe so that I could fabricate parts at home. We had a few top notch machinist at work and I learned a lot from them but sometimes they didn't have time to work on my less pressing projects... you know, there was always an emergency press break down that took priority.
@@WinkysWorkshop Great story....many thanks for sharing and enjoy a happy, healthy, and very well-deserved retirement!
I like how you finished the South Bend Lathe, it looks very authentic to period, plus it just looks great.
Using the Protractor App on the Phone is an excellent approach to setting angles both fr the Lathe and the mill. I would suggest a metal clamp with machined surfaces so it can be easily used on the Mill.
That would be a good idea... the clamp that is.
This idea of yours made me subscribe. Nice solution.
Thanks!
Strong video. Really nice work again.
Simple too... Thanks
A smartphone is a magic wand that is always with you)))
Seem to be true!
Never thought of use my cell phone, great idea, blow my mind "blue smoke"
HA! Got it. I've had other freak out when they saw blue smoke while drilling. To some degree this is not a problem but some seem the think it's terrible.
Thanks for watching! (and explaining)
Beautiful!
Thanks
Wooowww, what a brilliant idea 👍 👍 👍
Thank you so much 😊
¡Thanks for "un-donkey" me about such an application!!.
I just use a level on the chuck jaws. That gives 2, 3, or 6 increments of a full rotation very accurately.
Yeah that would work will most the time. Good idea
@@WinkysWorkshop you do need a short level though. I use a scales level which is about 8" long but to compensate, it has magnets in the back which simplifies things considerably.
Scaffolder's level.
@@tano1747 - This is my preferred method. Easy and accurate ruclips.net/video/xauJcjrINy0/видео.html
Thank You, Very helpful tip.
Glad it was helpful!
When I saw the protractor app on the phone, it struck me that the app could be superior to the digital angle finder which has a single purpose. By having a metal clamp holder for the smartphone could have many more uses especially if the clamp is designed around Machinists tasks and other measurement challenges.
My other thought is the Lathe Indexer. why not an index wheel that is about 2 or three feet in diameter.
The degree of additional accuracy is immense. I read some where but for the life of me I cannot remember where. The English used a similar method but used an index wheel mounted horizontal driving gears to provide an accuracy level approaching todays optical standards. There is a ton of information in the early Victorian machinist related books. This is the first documented report of the Tangential Lathe tool which looks very similar to the Eccentric Engineering Diamond Tool Holder.
I made this gear indexer that works great within limits. I need to reduce the clearance in the pin to improve it. ruclips.net/video/xauJcjrINy0/видео.html
Brilliant as always
Thanks again!
Absolutely fantastic
Thanks
Wow, blue smoke, thats good!
I make plenty of blue smoke. Usually with carbide and it doesn't hurt anything. Same with HSS to some degree although if you go too far the results are not so good. This is mostly due to my drill press not going slow enough. But... I didn't see any smoke in this video. Where was it?
plain brillant !
Thanks... easy too
That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing.
It's my second try... I like it better than the first! Thanks
Brilliant idea, right on.
Glad you like it!
Nice idea...You could do the same with a digital angle finder...A bit more accurate as well.
Definitely! Although the phone app seem to work just as well. I compared my phone to a fairly expensive angle finder at work at it was exactly the same. It might vary with phones however.
Seems like you need a way the lock the soindle in position as I found the phone protractor very sensitive and I'm sure it would drift off your setting. At least my spindle would.
I think that depends on what you want to do. Simply spotting a hole probably would not move the spindle on my lathe but this is certainly something to be aware of.
Very interesting !
But for 90° intervals, just use a position stop to rotate a 4-jaw chuck to.
For 120° and 60° intervals, use a 3-jaw chuck.
Actually, dad fitted a protractor to the back end of the spindle - I need to remove it to access the gear-train to the power feeds !
But the obvious question is - why not use the mill !
This is just one of many ways. I have a 48 tooth gear I used for most things along with a tool post drill. A rotary table is more accurate but for most things the gear works great. I also use a 100 tooth saw blade for dials.
Love your videos, but was hoping to see a blooper of you starting up with your phone in😂
Hahaha... Thanks. That reminds me of a time I was turning a 3 foot length of 3/8 all thread. It was doing fine for about 30 seconds and then started whipping around. Scared the heck out of me.
Great clever idea
Thank you! Cheers!
I like it! I like the way you think, I like the way you do things, I like the results you get. I am an old guy who" used'a could" But can't anymore. You obviously make the best of what you have and improve what you've got to make it better than original.
While I no longer have access to a shop in which to make chips, sawdust, smoke,or things I've thought of. I would like to use a CAD computer program that produces nice clean 2D and 3D drawings you often show in your presentations. Please sir, what computer drafting program do you use to get your drawings??
I'm using a 2016 version of Sketchup (pro version). In the past I would have recommended it but they got greedy. Sketchup used to be free for home use but now they are subscription based. I don't mind paying for software and even yearly is okay if it's good software and a good price but $300 a year is well beyond ridiculous. I think you can still find the 2017 version free on the internet to download... might be worth trying to find. I think it's a little easier than other CAD although I've never seen a truly easy cad program.
When I learned mechanical drafting in the 1940s in Junior High School, we had T-squares and triangles, and we drew little mutilated blocks on eight-and-a-half by 11 sheets of paper.
When I went to Texas A&M University in 1961 the College of Engineering used VEMCO, parallel arm drafting machines with a protractor head. The architecture Department used a long parallel bar on Big D size sheets.
When I graduated with a terminal degree in industrial education and technology in 1968 there were no computers and therefore no CAD drawing and all of the shop work was done with careful measurement, sketches and the touch of the Master's Hands on the controls.
In 2001 when I did mentoring for a Magnet High School in Amarillo Texas, I had contact with pre-engineering students who were enrolled in a program called Project Lead the Way which I think was a national initiative at that time. I had students in their senior year for an internship experience after they had completed three years which included Autodesk Inventor.
I quickly found out that I had to go to the local community college and take a night class in auto desk I
2010 when
Over the next 10 years, I continued to use the annual upgrades in the inventor series until Autodesk decided to eliminate the free version to educators and I was forced to consider Fusion 360 for a fee!
By that time I had hundreds of inventor digital part drawings, assemblies, STL's and comfortable experiences that I could no longer access. I had experimented with SketchUp previously but never really considered moving away from my comfort zone within INVENTOR.
Now that I have really retired and have time I have tried to start over again with everything from Tinker cad, Vcarve, Fusion 360, the new and improved Trimble SketchUp, leading to dissatisfaction and frustration. I guess at age 86 I'm too old to start over.
I enjoy watching your program following your threads and watching the touch of the master Which is far better than I ever was when I taught beginning machine shop.
Thanks for the prompt reply I have a Winkie's shortcut icon on my desktop and frequently click on it for a relaxing hour or so.
I'm frequently reminded of the dream sequence in George C Scott's portrayal of Patton in the movie of the same name. Patton is sleeping in an armchair with a copy of Rommel's book - Desert Tank Warfare - Where a Panoramic widescreen full of burned out German tanks lie smoldering in the heat. Scott utters the line attributed to his character," Rummel, you SOB, I Read Your Book."
As an honest expression of praise- Winky, We watch your RUclips channel with great admiration.
@@wallacejohnston9059 Wallace, all I can say is Wow! Thank you so much for your great comment and appreciation. I think you are giving me far too much credit. I learned Sketchup and still struggle with it (although I do successfully utilize it). I tried auto cad and solid works and was totally lost. I have zero formal education and my abilities in math are somewhat limited. Where I excel is creativity. I can visualize anything machinal and understand the very basic math and physics needed. Beyond that Google is my best friend. Ha. Google is kind of like CAD in a funny way. It give solutions. I will admit that creativity is just is important as knowledge. When somebody has both you get a super star. Google and cad help me a lot :o)
@@WinkysWorkshop Thanks for the quick reply on a Saturday night (7:33 PM here in Essex Junction, VT - EST. Where ar4 you located?
Where did the nickname WINKY come from?
What have you done before you became a Movie Star?
@@wallacejohnston9059 Movie star! Haha... you're funny. Honestly, I'm in a continuous state mild shock that my videos are so popular. I do think my videos with a few exceptions have improved over the years as I learn what I'm doing with machine work and video editing. Plus thanks to comments from people like you my self confidence gets a little boost. I Grew up in near Seattle and moved to Kentucky when I was 22 years old. I've worked in printing all my life it seems. I worked 39 yrs for the web offset plant here in KY before I retired 5 yrs ago. We printed high volume magazines. Most the presses (14 of them) took up the space of a standard basket ball court although a bit longer. Intimidating, complicated and fascinating at the same time. I worked on of ran a press most my career but the last 15 years I had a job as a trouble shooter for problem areas of the machines... or at least that is the way is started. It morphed into a lot of significant equipment redesign. For the most part I loved and it was very rewarding. To redesign a machine and watch it function much better was amazing. I was "full on" for about 10 or 12 years and then I kind of hit a wall. All my answers ran out. I was so glad to retire!!! Anyway... One of the supervisors over maintenance started calling me Winky because it sounded like part of my last name. I can hear him saying it now.... Somebody would "Josh, the stacker is not working right" and Josh would say, "Go get Winky!" So I did an engineers job without the pay. Of course in many way I was not qualified as an engineer but the fact remains, I fixed hundred of problems the engineers could not or would not fix.
.1 of a degree is not bad, I worked out using a cad program that a line drawn at .1 from the datum line equated to something like 10mm (if I remember correctly) away from true at a distance of 1 kilometre. So that is negligible for the home handyman.
That sounds about right... Totally adequate for about anything I can think of.
Just checked my calculations, for accuracy and I was out a little. Over a distance of 100 meters, it is 17cm off..
I still wouldnt be concered, maybe with .2degrees but not .1 :) :)
Outstanding
Thanks
Great information l love it thanks for posting..
Your welcome~ !
Great idea to modernize manual equipment. Thanks
You are welcome!
Good thinking
Thanks
G’day Winky. Not another damn app at least this one should be useful. Thanks for the idea, cheers. Peter
I know the feeling on the apps - Look for "Protractor EXE Tools" (less ads)
Hello sir, another brilliant idea to simplify the divisions on lathe. Could you enlighten me please. In 3'.02, for what reasons, did you not drill in the center of the wooden plate in order to glue the wooden axis there? Can I hope for a response. Good continuation and good day. P. K.
Good question. It really doesn't matter but I didn't want the button on the upper part of my cell phone to be in the holder. By offsetting the hole the phone was roughly centered on the axis of my spindle.
@@WinkysWorkshop Hello sir, taking into account your arguments, I mounted my tablet on a wood support like you and connected the support to the spindle outlet, via a screwed aluminum part. The tablet is centered on the spindle axis and the use of the protractor is fabulous. Thank you again for your sharing of ideas. P. K. (French)
@@paulk3573 That's great! Thanks for letting me know.
I love the lathe finish too is it some kind of powder coating on pulleys ? or paint ? looks nice
It's actually black satin spray paint. If I remember right Kylon Fusion.
Thank you it looks good and seems to be durable. I may do like wise as I have a high humidity issue and my pulleys always have a light sheen of rust. I can not oil them because they slip
Hello Winky mate..
I bought a drill combo from VEVOR. I'm waiting on them to arrive now but I'm looking forward to seeing how they do bcos it was a great deal for 20V Brushless Drill and Impact driver combi set.. They should be perfect enough for my needs and were only 95 euros..
I wanted to ask u if u would ask Vevor to let u do some more reviews on their tools bcos I'm defo interested in their Belt/Disc sander/grinder 375W machine for 132.99 euros..
I want to know how decent it is before buying it but I guess for that price u cannot go wrong and it would or should be perfect for my small shop.. U obviously have better tools that this in ur shop my bro but It would be cool to see what u actually think of it..
Enjoying watching the videos tonight before I get back at it again tomorrow and carry on building out my little shop for a buindle of storage.
I'm at the mercy of the weather here bcos it likes to rain when u least expect it man.. LOL
Irish weather is a nightmare esp on ur day off when u need to cut 8X4 sheet goods outside in the yard.. haha!
Take care mate and take it easy..
Great, I hope they are good. I'm never tried them. Some of their products are great and some, not so much.
Pretty cool
Thanks
Why not just make a post to rest the chuck jaw on? That would work fine for 3 holes.
Versatility. Good luck drilling two holes. Or three when using a 4-jaw or collect chuck!
I've actually done that before. I just want to ability to drill at different angles.
No good for a split die holder - the three holes are 45 deg. apart...
Wood’s a four letter word, you know. 😁
Thanks for the idea.
John
You bet! Hey, I like wood.
I have a mount for my cell phone to attach it to the back of my telescope. It would work perfectly to attach to a dowel in the lathe spindle
Cool... Heck, even rubber bands would work but the telescope option sounds great.
slick idea!
Thanks!
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I'm not sure but there are several available.
Great idea!!
Thank you! 😊 Simple but great for some things.
Excellent!
Many thanks!
Great tip!
Glad you think so!
Genius !!
Very clever!
Thanks !
Thats a great idea indeed. Few months back I noticed I could lockup my logan lathe with the back gears (carefully) to give me 3 and 6 divisions, possibly more. Also I needed to index 6 sides on a shaper project. So I made a wooden hex ring for the part to set in to allow indexing ruclips.net/video/63h2vlQVAr8/видео.html worked like a champ on that job. Its amazing how often I find wood can assist in metal working projects, without the cost/time of messing with metal scraps
I agree, wood is useful. The back great on a logan would be tricky to use.
Cold you not make a rotation stop to work with lathe chucks - 3 jaw for 60° and 120° and 4-jaw for 90° intervals ?
Oh now that’s brilliant
Thanks. Love the cat! We have two
Good sir
Thanks!
What app was that? There are quite a few but I like the visuals on the one you have.
Look for Protractor EXA Tools. It seems to be about the best.
Very helpful
Glad you think so!
genius
Do they have an app to cut 56 tooth gears?
Not sure about that
That´s a good one, thank´s! 👍👍👍🖖
Your welcome!
Why not just use an engine degree wheel and an indicator?
Dang good idea!
Another great idea!! did that drill press have a power feed table up and down?? never seen one ?
That my square column drill press. I added a Harbor Freight 3/8 drill to the lift. ruclips.net/video/i4_FtMMMfDw/видео.html
Well, that could be handy in a pinch.
Simple for sure!
Brilliant idea. Thanks! Which protractor app are you using?
Thanks, Look for "Protractor EXE Tools" (less ads)