I regularly watch a few “machine shop” channels, ranging from full on “true” commercial shop involved with heavy machinery (the tube being a little on the side) through to a shop with CNC. Always find the steam driven shop a great watch.
I would like to say, you have a very nice, clean and well laid out shop. The Atlas lathe is good however one needs to make fixtures to work with it. As for the threading work I use thread checking micrometers and gages to get very tight thread fits.
I buy tooling from a guy who resells from auctions and estate sales. He says he finds Atlas lathes in the home shops of all the old guys who worked on bigger machines as professionals. Thanks for sharing.
I went to an all boys secondary trade college in the 1960s in Australia, we had similar, atlas lathes in our turning and fitting class rooms, they were so worn out and abused by generations of schoolboys, but they still worked. The idea was to turn out a large number of all kinds apprentices in the 60s as demand for them was massive . Seeing your videos always takes me back to those machine shop classes or my uncles engineering works. I can almost smell the cutting fluid.😁 wonderful work.
Thanks Robert for your great comment, it was the same here in this country and large industries that would take high school grads into their apprentice programs. Sadly, the industries and school shops have disappeared now and we are at the mercy of foreign suppliers.....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 SO sad. I should have done the trade school instead of wasting my time in college because I really dislike what I am doing and the people around me that are there...-John
Every winter , for the last few years, I miss seeing you up in New York. I really like that old style machine shop. Until the spring, I'll be content to see this video, and any others you put up while in Florida.
watching you work,, I feel like I am watching my father when he use to make brass nuts for boat shafts.. Thank you for my trip down memory lane. Keep up the good work
Hi Dave, Nice job! shows what can be done on an old machine. I have a 1940's raglan lathe and I am about to try my hand at threading, seeing this video has made it a little less daunting, thank you! The thread is most likely whitworth pipe thread which was 11 TPI from 6 1/2 inches down to 1 inch and 14 TPI below that.
Dave - A good video to watch with my after lunch tea. You're not missing anything up here in Tioga County today - raining and 39. Enjoy the sunshine down there. Dale
@@davidrichards5594 Hello David, At the moment I am rebuilding an old Belgian Motorcycle . Make Minerva from 1902. I need to make a lot of new parts. Tank,brake in the rear wheel ,ignition, carburator (from a brass casting)and so on. I hope to start driving this summer. At the end of summier I have a special run in Germany for motorcycles made before 1908. Sorry I keep myself bust. Greetings from Me. Keep up the food work. Ps how are you doing with you generator is there some progress?
Nice work, really enjoyed that! I am also a great believer in sneaking up on the best fit. Every thread, especially on old machinery, is slightly different! Phil UK
I'm pleased to hear that You found the little Atlas lathe quite capable for the job David because at Lotus in the mid 1950s one of those was our sole lathe but the Boss did buy a vertical attachment for Me ! Soon be time for You to venture back up North and get that fire lit isn't it ?Thanks for the video -as ever .
Something peacful about all this.I like that lathe,but not as much as my old south bends.As my skills improve watching your videos,theres even hope for an old guy like me trying to find peace in a crazy world.Thank,s Dave
Found more southbend pieces including a 36 inch bed with nearly all the original scraping frosting!How did that happen?it was under my work bench for 20 years?I felt like a little kid and I'm 79 years old.It's drilled for the auto gearbox too!I love this stuff,You are a great inspiration to us all keep up the good work I can't wait for your next video
Great to see another video from you. I like to sit back and reminisce about my 43 years as a machinist in the steel industry. Look forward to the assembly of the Liley engine when you back to New York. I appreciate your descriptions of what you are doing. Hope all is well.
Have an old Atlas just like yours but with the timken head. Love the overhead drive, smooth running. Not a production machine but have produced a lot of parts over the years!
Good to see you at work again, Dave! Bet you are glad to be down south about now with all that cold winter going on up north. I miss steam machinery, so I should make me one. All I have for a shop is a mini lathe and a Hobby class mill. Should be enough to make a small one.
that lathe (which OSHA would NEVER approve of) with those exposed pulleys and belts. reminds me of my restored Dalton Lot 4 which is missing the casting for the pulley cover. I first got it as scrap covered in rust and spent about a year restoring it.
Hey up mate that was another beautiful job loved how you sneak up on the thread, have watched all your videos but i do miss the clock when you're in Florida hope the hot rod is seeing some action
thanks for the info Dave. I'm a 66 y.o. journeyman machinist. Still making a good living by myself in my own shop. "The Old Way" I enjoy your videos. Thank you sir.@@davidrichards5594
nice to see you again must be good to move somewhere warm for the winter time but I am sure you miss your shop up north take care man look forward to seeing you soon
Good to see a video from you. I had been checking over the summer and fall to make sure I hadn't missed any. I suspect it was a hot year for steam power.
Just love to see the work that you do and I more and more wish that I had a lathe and an mill here in my home. I have some equipment but not those bigger machines unfortunately. I have 3 phase power 400V 35 A so I could run quite big machines 🙂
Dave; the problem you've faced and conquered is the fact you're cutting a fairly fine pitch thread on a lathe without prismatic ways so cross slide slop has to be watched closely. The Atlas was notorious for the teeny little small diameter graduated thimbles on the compound and cross slide. That makes cutting of threads a very exacting experience. I noticed you engaged the lead screw with tool bit at a bit of distance from the piece so you obviously know this lathe's flat-ways-cross-slide-wobble-take-up well and managed as expected.
Dave, Thanks for the refresher on cutting threads. Might want to comment on the adjustments made to the cross slide and compound tool post. (i.e., why 29 not 30 degrees) . Minus 20 Hon for your file technique. You know files only cut in one direction...🙂 God Bless! KW
I really love your videos. It is awesome to see you using so many tools that I can make in my home shop. Thank you for finding the motivation to make just one more video. And this one you are using a tool holder that I have never seen to hold a round boring tool in a lamp post. I hope you have a minute to show how this thing works.
I have made many van norman 1/2 5v tooling on my atlas 10. These lathes with modern inserts and proper adjustments can keep just a few tenths tolerance if you take your time and understand the lathe.
Nice. That's pretty much identical to mine but the compound slide is more square . I have turned Honda 90 cylinder heads to rebush the cam bearings, Made many rollers and shafts for conveyors,scraped keyways and even made plastic gears as I have a 60 hole indexing plate which is so useful and not found on modern machines much
Interesting Don, this lathe has a ring of 60 holes on the side of the spindle pulley gear with a plunger stop that could also be used for indexing.....Dave
To make it easy for me to return the cross slide I place a dial indicator on the cross slide and zero it out so the carriage can be adjusted repeatedly.
Always good to see you with a new vid, Dave! And I've said it before... the more talk, the better, because the best machine in your shop is... your brain! :-)
@@davidrichards5594 That's because what those folks say isn't so interesting or useful! :-) It all depends on who and what. Don't think of it as yackin, maybe just... thinking out loud. :-)
Great to watch you work, even without the line shafts. Sadly, it took 2 days before I found your video tucked way below all the other silly stuff that youtube wanted me to watch. Keep warm.
Hi Dave glad to see you again and nice nut! A lot of stuff has been built on the Atlas lathe over the years. Not much of a lathe if you're used to doing heavy work (I do heavy repair work) and you are certainly not going to set the world on fire with one, however when used in their intended capacity they are not horrible and way better than a cheap import Mini lathe by 100 miles or no lathe at all. God only knows how many repairs have been made or models and small tools etc... have been built with them by patient and careful home shop machinists. Our neighbor down the street from my boyhood home build at least two beautiful running steam locomotives using his Atlas lathe and a small horizontal mill of unknown make in the 60's and 70's. Cheers
I just made a packing gland for a Huber portable steam engine. It was also a 1 7/8-11 thread. There was also a nut that was 2 1/4-11. I figured Huber was the only one to come up with such an odd thread.
Hello Dave, would it'd been advantageous to have mounted the fitting in the lathe and lightly skim the threads to clean them up? Absolutely love your work atmospheres - so vintage and so tidy. Thank you.
Hi David, good to see you again from Australia, we don't have a snow problem here in sunny Queensland, quite the opposite, things tend to rust up because of the sweat dripping off us and onto tools etc. This can be a bit of a problem if you don't oil up your micrometres and such, it can also affect job sizes as the parts have expanded in the heat of the day, anyway love your vidoes and sure would like to see how you winterise your shop/machines if that's possible.
You Tube- TAKE DOWN that initial SCAM ARTIST. .Like how to make Make money - WATCHING You Tube videos ~~~ By te way, Dave,. Congratulations on a very clear video of each step on your old flat bed lathe. We've had several Atlas 7" and 10" lathes over the years as well as the better Myford lathes out of England, that used proper cut steel, not zinc diecast gears like the Atlas. But ANY lathe is better than NO lathe. ;-) EVentually we moved up and were selling bigger ones. Our biggest two, a 50 foot between centers at the Dominion Bridge works in Montreal, and sold a 52" spindle bore Heyligenstadt lathe to Rolls-Royce in England, used to make the precision turbine rings. Lathes are . . . . neat King of Machine Tools !
Awesome to see a new post from you. We have missed you a lot 😊 glad your back hope all is well.
I regularly watch a few “machine shop” channels, ranging from full on “true” commercial shop involved with heavy machinery (the tube being a little on the side) through to a shop with CNC. Always find the steam driven shop a great watch.
Good to see you back at it. Can't wait for more videos from the Old Steam Powered Machine Shop!
I would like to say, you have a very nice, clean and well laid out shop. The Atlas lathe is good however one needs to make fixtures to work with it. As for the threading work I use thread checking micrometers and gages to get very tight thread fits.
I buy tooling from a guy who resells from auctions and estate sales. He says he finds Atlas lathes in the home shops of all the old guys who worked on bigger machines as professionals. Thanks for sharing.
man i hope you have an apprentice. what a wealth of knowledge
I went to an all boys secondary trade college in the 1960s in Australia, we had similar, atlas lathes in our turning and fitting class rooms, they were so worn out and abused by generations of schoolboys, but they still worked. The idea was to turn out a large number of all kinds apprentices in the 60s as demand for them was massive . Seeing your videos always takes me back to those machine shop classes or my uncles engineering works. I can almost smell the cutting fluid.😁 wonderful work.
Thanks Robert for your great comment, it was the same here in this country and large industries that would take high school grads into their apprentice programs. Sadly, the industries and school shops have disappeared now and we are at the mercy of foreign suppliers.....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 SO sad. I should have done the trade school instead of wasting my time in college because I really dislike what I am doing and the people around me that are there...-John
Every winter , for the last few years, I miss seeing you up in New York. I really like that old style machine shop. Until the spring, I'll be content to see this video, and any others you put up while in Florida.
Just love the videos. I wish you could make more of them.
Nice work Dave, keeps you busy down south.
watching you work,, I feel like I am watching my father when he use to make brass nuts for boat shafts.. Thank you for my trip down memory lane. Keep up the good work
Excellent work Dave! Always a pleasure watching and learning from you!
This is a wonderful video Dave. You are a great teacher, and your patience with correct decision making shine through. Thanks for the lesson.
Good to see you and a happy new year .From the north of the 49th West coast Canada
Stay warm up there guys, throw another log on the fire, get your lathe going and make something.....Dave
Old school at its best! Thanks pal. Good to see you back!
Nice one Dave . Looks a great little lathe . 👍
Hi Dave, Nice job! shows what can be done on an old machine. I have a 1940's raglan lathe and I am about to try my hand at threading, seeing this video has made it a little less daunting, thank you! The thread is most likely whitworth pipe thread which was 11 TPI from 6 1/2 inches down to 1 inch and 14 TPI below that.
Yes, pretty close to 1 1/2" BSPT.
And 55 degree thread angle..
Dave - A good video to watch with my after lunch tea. You're not missing anything up here in Tioga County today - raining and 39. Enjoy the sunshine down there. Dale
Thanks, could be alot worse....Dave
Nice to see the hexagon made by hand. Good result. Thanks for sharing.
Great to see you again! Thanks for sharing and enjoy the Florida weather. 😅
I love watching that little lathe make good quality parts.
Thank you for your effort and quality of work and everlasting legacy! Greetings from Romania!
Thanks, very good to hear from Romania....Dave
Hallo David,
Good to see a new video.
All the best for 2024 from us in Friesland in the Netherlands
Hi Henk, good to hear from Netherlands. What are you building these days?....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 Hello David,
At the moment I am rebuilding an old Belgian Motorcycle .
Make Minerva from 1902.
I need to make a lot of new parts.
Tank,brake in the rear wheel ,ignition, carburator (from a brass casting)and so on.
I hope to start driving this summer.
At the end of summier I have a special run in Germany for motorcycles made before 1908.
Sorry I keep myself bust.
Greetings from Me.
Keep up the food work.
Ps how are you doing with you generator is there some progress?
Nice work, really enjoyed that! I am also a great believer in sneaking up on the best fit. Every thread, especially on old machinery, is slightly different!
Phil UK
I so miss your videos!! Glad to see all is well Dave. Thank you for another great video!!
its great to see you again dave!
I'm pleased to hear that You found the little Atlas lathe quite capable for the job David because at Lotus in the mid 1950s one of those was our sole lathe but the Boss did buy a vertical attachment for Me ! Soon be time for You to venture back up North and get that fire lit isn't it ?Thanks for the video -as ever .
looking great.....cheers from Orlando, Florida, Paul
That little lathe is nice and quiet with no geared head.
Something peacful about all this.I like that lathe,but not as much as my old south bends.As my skills improve watching your videos,theres even hope for an old guy like me trying to find peace in a crazy world.Thank,s Dave
Found more southbend pieces including a 36 inch bed with nearly all the original scraping frosting!How did that happen?it was under my work bench for 20 years?I felt like a little kid and I'm 79 years old.It's drilled for the auto gearbox too!I love this stuff,You are a great inspiration to us all keep up the good work I can't wait for your next video
Great to see another video from you. I like to sit back and reminisce about my 43 years as a machinist in the steel industry. Look forward to the assembly of the Liley engine when you back to New York. I appreciate your descriptions of what you are doing. Hope all is well.
Until the parts get back to the other shop, it would make a great paper weight! Great work Dave!
Nice to see ya back make'n parts. Take care
Nice work Dave good to see you again!
Have an old Atlas just like yours but with the timken head. Love the overhead drive, smooth running. Not a production machine but have produced a lot of parts over the years!
Yeah, I wish this one had roller bearings....Dave
Nice work Dave
Have a good time down in the worm weather
Always good seeing you, Dave. Send some of that warm Florida weather to Texas. We promise not to waste it.
Hi Terry, Good to hear from you again.....Dave
Always a pleasure seeing you Dave. @@davidrichards5594
Gday Dave, fantastic to see you back, the Atlas does a brilliant job mate, cheers
Thanks, the Atlas was a cheap lathe for the masses that anyone could own.....Dave
I always enjoy your videos and solid old school craftsmanship.
Great to see another vid.
Nice, clean lathe and shop, it’s looking good down there!
Nice job! I enjoyed the video.
Good to see you at work again, Dave! Bet you are glad to be down south about now with all that cold winter going on up north. I miss steam machinery, so I should make me one. All I have for a shop is a mini lathe and a Hobby class mill. Should be enough to make a small one.
It's great to see a new vid! I hope your having a good winter in the warmth!
VERY VERY GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK, PROBABLY THREE MONTHS BEFORE YOU ARE BACK IN THE NEW YORK SHOP,.
that lathe (which OSHA would NEVER approve of) with those exposed pulleys and belts. reminds me of my restored Dalton Lot 4 which is missing the casting for the pulley cover. I first got it as scrap covered in rust and spent about a year restoring it.
Hey up mate that was another beautiful job loved how you sneak up on the thread, have watched all your videos but i do miss the clock when you're in Florida hope the hot rod is seeing some action
Thanks for the video from sunny Florida, NE Ohio kinda soggy today and temps in the low 50's🤗😎🤗😎
Looks exactly like my "old" little Craftsmen lathe.
Probably is, Sears sold them as Craftsman....Dave
thanks for the info Dave. I'm a 66 y.o. journeyman machinist. Still making a good living by myself in my own shop. "The Old Way" I enjoy your videos. Thank you sir.@@davidrichards5594
THANKS DAVID....For the fine machining work video....An it very Good to see you are doing okay my friend.....
Old F-4 2 Shoe🇺🇸
Thanks to you too Steve...Dave
Nice work. Those little Atlas Lathes are a good machine!
Real happy to see making chips. Nice little lathe to have at the auxiliary shop
Nice work!
Outstanding work Dave!
It's been a while Dave good to see you back, have fun in Florida, can't wait to see you put that engine together.
Dave!!!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 nice to see/hear from ya! Thank you!
Your looking well Dave , nice little project there . Wonderful things felt tip pen for Aide-memoire .
nice to see you again must be good to move somewhere warm for the winter time but I am sure you miss your shop up north take care man look forward to seeing you soon
Good to see a video from you. I had been checking over the summer and fall to make sure I hadn't missed any. I suspect it was a hot year for steam power.
Happy New Year!
Good video hope to see you at the meet and greet at Florida flywheelers in February. if you need anything while in Florida let me know.
Just love to see the work that you do and I more and more wish that I had a lathe and an mill here in my home. I have some equipment but not those bigger machines unfortunately. I have 3 phase power 400V 35 A so I could run quite big machines 🙂
Very nice job on a small lathe. It seems all it takes is skill, training and a lot of patience. KOKO!
Nice seeing you again Dave!
I'm on the hunt for an Atlas lathe. Perfect size for my shop. Great video Dave!
Good to see you post a video! We all missed you!! ❤
Dave; the problem you've faced and conquered is the fact you're cutting a fairly fine pitch thread on a lathe without prismatic ways so cross slide slop has to be watched closely. The Atlas was notorious for the teeny little small diameter graduated thimbles on the compound and cross slide. That makes cutting of threads a very exacting experience. I noticed you engaged the lead screw with tool bit at a bit of distance from the piece so you obviously know this lathe's flat-ways-cross-slide-wobble-take-up well and managed as expected.
Dave, Thanks for the refresher on cutting threads. Might want to comment on the adjustments made to the cross slide and compound tool post. (i.e., why 29 not 30 degrees) . Minus 20 Hon for your file technique. You know files only cut in one direction...🙂 God Bless! KW
Keith, you know why, you Techo.....Dave
Thanks for sharing
Looking good Sir. I so thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you.
Good to see you back David, Best Wishes from Scotland👍
Hi Vic, nice to hear from Scotland.....Dave
Thanks David for another excellent video! 😀👍
As you say Dave it's all in the set up, and never make mistakes only make corrections. Thanks for your time. Paul
That’s really cool. I appreciate the great video 👍🙂
Awesome!
Good to hear from you. Always enjoy the content.
Nice to see you at work; I genuinely enjoy your projects. Welcome back.
I was like HEY,,,Wheres Mr Richards,,,
Glad to see you back at it..
Glad to see You back. Best regards from Poland ❤
I really love your videos. It is awesome to see you using so many tools that I can make in my home shop. Thank you for finding the motivation to make just one more video. And this one you are using a tool holder that I have never seen to hold a round boring tool in a lamp post. I hope you have a minute to show how this thing works.
David, Great to see you back again.😀
Nice to see you
I have made many van norman 1/2 5v tooling on my atlas 10. These lathes with modern inserts and proper adjustments can keep just a few tenths tolerance if you take your time and understand the lathe.
Nice. That's pretty much identical to mine but the compound slide is more square . I have turned Honda 90 cylinder heads to rebush the cam bearings, Made many rollers and shafts for conveyors,scraped keyways and even made plastic gears as I have a 60 hole indexing plate which is so useful and not found on modern machines much
Interesting Don, this lathe has a ring of 60 holes on the side of the spindle pulley gear with a plunger stop that could also be used for indexing.....Dave
To make it easy for me to return the cross slide I place a dial indicator on the cross slide and zero it out so the carriage can be adjusted repeatedly.
Good idea. Only superman could read the tiny dial on the Atlas, I just put a mark on it to return to.....Dave
Good to see you back at work.
Excellent work - thanks for sharing
Always good to see you with a new vid, Dave! And I've said it before... the more talk, the better, because the best machine in your shop is... your brain! :-)
I just hate yackin, and listening to someone else's yacking, and commercials....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 That's because what those folks say isn't so interesting or useful! :-) It all depends on who and what.
Don't think of it as yackin, maybe just... thinking out loud. :-)
Great to watch you work, even without the line shafts. Sadly, it took 2 days before I found your video tucked way below all the other silly stuff that youtube wanted me to watch. Keep warm.
Great to see a new video! Love your content!
Enjoyed your video
Nice to see you enjoying that great Florida winter weather, Nice nut job also.
Bonjour David,
Bonne Année !
You are too rare on videos and I hope we see you soon surroundeed by steam again 😉
Amicalement, Raphaël
great work always a thank :)
Hi Dave glad to see you again and nice nut! A lot of stuff has been built on the Atlas lathe over the years. Not much of a lathe if you're used to doing heavy work (I do heavy repair work) and you are certainly not going to set the world on fire with one, however when used in their intended capacity they are not horrible and way better than a cheap import Mini lathe by 100 miles or no lathe at all. God only knows how many repairs have been made or models and small tools etc... have been built with them by patient and careful home shop machinists. Our neighbor down the street from my boyhood home build at least two beautiful running steam locomotives using his Atlas lathe and a small horizontal mill of unknown make in the 60's and 70's. Cheers
All true, but I think a 9" South Bend of comparable condition would be a better machine.....Dave
@@davidrichards5594 Absolutely or an 11 inch Sheldon. Like I said better than no lathe at all.
I just made a packing gland for a Huber portable steam engine. It was also a 1 7/8-11 thread. There was also a nut that was 2 1/4-11. I figured Huber was the only one to come up with such an odd thread.
A Huber return flue engine. Interesting to know...Dave
Love it please make more videos
Hello Dave, would it'd been advantageous to have mounted the fitting in the lathe and lightly skim the threads to clean them up? Absolutely love your work atmospheres - so vintage and so tidy. Thank you.
Good idea, I actually did that but lost the video clip....Dave
Nice work as always David. I was expecting you to explain the use of an 11 tpi chaser though!
Hi David, good to see you again from Australia, we don't have a snow problem here in sunny Queensland, quite the opposite, things tend to rust up because of the sweat dripping off us and onto tools etc. This can be a bit of a problem if you don't oil up your micrometres and such, it can also affect job sizes as the parts have expanded in the heat of the day, anyway love your vidoes and sure would like to see how you winterise your shop/machines if that's possible.
You Tube- TAKE DOWN that initial SCAM ARTIST. .Like how to make Make money - WATCHING You Tube videos ~~~
By te way, Dave,. Congratulations on a very clear video of each step on your old flat bed lathe. We've had several Atlas 7" and 10" lathes over the years as well as the better Myford lathes out of England, that used proper cut steel, not zinc diecast gears like the Atlas. But ANY lathe is better than NO lathe. ;-)
EVentually we moved up and were selling bigger ones. Our biggest two, a 50 foot between centers at the Dominion Bridge works in Montreal,
and sold a 52" spindle bore Heyligenstadt lathe to Rolls-Royce in England, used to make the precision turbine rings.
Lathes are . . . . neat King of Machine Tools !
"Any lathe is better than no lathe"😏......Dave
Good evening David