Watched your original unboxing and first investigation about how it worked and what it could cut. Nice job. I did see when you showed the gears that the bottom gear wasn't aligned to its companion gear.. I heard that may cause uneven wear and more run noise. Wondering if you had seen this and if so if you had addressed it. Nice first project!
Wow! Great project and well done on making a pen! Can you let us know what you would buy if you were to buy a lathe again? Is there a model you can recommend?
Honestly I don't know, I guess i would probably by this one again not to small not too big. Plenty of power for my projects. Super dangerous as is... but after a few small ideas I hardly use it. It supplements my projects but almost nothing has revolved around the lathe. Its just another tool that plays its part. I thought I'd use it way more.... still lots of fun and learning to do though. Check out "this old tony" he reviews a smaller one and probably better for small projects and learning. And he's hilarious 🤣
Nice video. However, long sleeves are very dangerous around such machinery. Part of safety around lathes, even small ones, is no long sleeves, long hair, gloves, ties, watches, or rings.
I under estimated this thing a lot its small its u der 1 hp.... no this thing will rip your arm off and beat you to death with it.... I am lucky I've gained some experience that I am now afraid of it. In a good way.
@@TwitchTreasureHunting Well, there are many safety and practice concerns. One common one among hobbyists is when they get a chip that is a long string. Some thing that is neat and try to see how long of a stringy chip they can make. The risk is that it suddenly starts wrapping around the work piece at light speed perhaps pulling you in with it. This is why you grind "chip breakers" into tool bits if necessary (and many inserts come with chip breakers already part of their geometry). In many machine shops, if you are seen making a long stringy chip, it can be a firing offense. For these small lathes, the main risks are to fingers and eyes. (Of course, for a larger lathe, the risk can be greater. If you want to see how much greater, you can search for "horrible lathe accident images" - but warning - not for the faint of heart.)
Oh I'm sorry does not show very well at all does it. I think I was center drilling the bolt action part that goes inside the pen. Some footage was lost and I'm not very good at you tube 🙂
Thanks for the reply. Yes, the drill bit is centering drill bit of-course. But I was thinking that you are making the slotting (creating the J path). As before this we have 2 holes for the 2 ends of the path, and after this we have the whole path created. The main reason I asked it was because I wanted to make sure that whether it is possible to create the whole J path with the lathe and not with any CNC or so on. It seems that it is doable.
Watched your original unboxing and first investigation about how it worked and what it could cut.
Nice job.
I did see when you showed the gears that the bottom gear wasn't aligned to its companion gear..
I heard that may cause uneven wear and more run noise.
Wondering if you had seen this and if so if you had addressed it.
Nice first project!
Yea I did notice that the bearing on the lead screw was not adjusted right it's much better now. Thanks🙃
Wow! Great project and well done on making a pen! Can you let us know what you would buy if you were to buy a lathe again? Is there a model you can recommend?
Honestly I don't know, I guess i would probably by this one again not to small not too big. Plenty of power for my projects. Super dangerous as is... but after a few small ideas I hardly use it. It supplements my projects but almost nothing has revolved around the lathe. Its just another tool that plays its part. I thought I'd use it way more.... still lots of fun and learning to do though. Check out "this old tony" he reviews a smaller one and probably better for small projects and learning. And he's hilarious 🤣
@@TwitchTreasureHunting honest feedback! Thanks!
Actually I loved it and want to have the same
Oh. Lol thanks. I made another one turned out amazing. But definitely not for sale. Sorry. Maybe some day.
What lathe are you using?
I’m trying to decide what to buy.
The one in my review video. I'll make a new video soon of a much nicer version of this pen.
Excuse me do you have a pen
Him: err hang on a second let me just make one
Lol after getting my lathe I couldn't think of anything to make 😂 I need to remake as I've made a few more and they look 100% better 👍
Hi from India how much would you charge for it 100 or 150 subscribers or ₹400
I don't understand your question. I wouldn't charge 5$ for this pen first try its terrible lol.
Nice video. However, long sleeves are very dangerous around such machinery. Part of safety around lathes, even small ones, is no long sleeves, long hair, gloves, ties, watches, or rings.
I under estimated this thing a lot its small its u der 1 hp.... no this thing will rip your arm off and beat you to death with it.... I am lucky I've gained some experience that I am now afraid of it. In a good way.
@@TwitchTreasureHunting Well, there are many safety and practice concerns. One common one among hobbyists is when they get a chip that is a long string. Some thing that is neat and try to see how long of a stringy chip they can make. The risk is that it suddenly starts wrapping around the work piece at light speed perhaps pulling you in with it. This is why you grind "chip breakers" into tool bits if necessary (and many inserts come with chip breakers already part of their geometry). In many machine shops, if you are seen making a long stringy chip, it can be a firing offense. For these small lathes, the main risks are to fingers and eyes. (Of course, for a larger lathe, the risk can be greater. If you want to see how much greater, you can search for "horrible lathe accident images" - but warning - not for the faint of heart.)
What are you doing from 9:33 to 9:45?
Oh I'm sorry does not show very well at all does it. I think I was center drilling the bolt action part that goes inside the pen. Some footage was lost and I'm not very good at you tube 🙂
Thanks for the reply. Yes, the drill bit is centering drill bit of-course. But I was thinking that you are making the slotting (creating the J path). As before this we have 2 holes for the 2 ends of the path, and after this we have the whole path created.
The main reason I asked it was because I wanted to make sure that whether it is possible to create the whole J path with the lathe and not with any CNC or so on.
It seems that it is doable.
@@a000ab your right it's been a while I made another one turned out so much better wish I filmed it too