Making custom U-Bolts with a capstan lathe and flypress
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Quick video of how we made some custom sized U-Bolts for a job using our old capstan lathe fitted with a Coventry Diehead and formed in the flypress. The flypress was probably close to its limit forming these up!
First lathe I operated as an apprentice was a ward 3 capstan in 1968. Sometimes, I wish I'd stayed in engineering, but my first love was calling for me to get behind the wheel so spent the rest of my working life driving lorries, but I do have a myford 7 in my shed which I can play with now I'm happily retired
Horses for courses I guess but a little engineering knowledge is always easily carried!
I like the flypress, simple & effective, used a few of them over the years for various tasks, can't get 'em now though.
Handy tool to have but definitely started to go up in price. So many scrapped over the years!
That fly press is awesome.
Thanks! It definitely gets the job done!
Not lo. Wrong way to to bend them. They will weaken over time
@@snicks50 worked fine for a low buck set up
How about welding a nut on the short leg of those wobbly tables so you can use an adjustment bolt to make them more stable?
Good call! I have great intentions of adjustable feet and castors but it hasn't happened in over 10 years so maybe a simple bolt wouldn't hurt in the meantime :-)
Dude, no safety glasses, rule 1.
ha ha love it i have the same cold saw it also has the rocking with one short leg
The rock seems to really bother people in these videos 🤣
I like chainsaws - and old machine tools. Just subscribed!
Thanks for the sub! I have an old Dolmar Sachs 122 super I'm trying to revive at the moment!
nice but put a wedge under the saw table leg please
I still dont quite know what the vertical slot in the back of a fly press is for... they all have it...
Wish id gotten my mates one instead. Twin column. Deeper stroke, with two balls...
Still, happy with my one armed bandit :) not quite identical to yours.
Handy to have.
Thanks for sharing that ! As a mechanic its good to see why I am being charged 50$ a (custom measure) Ubolt. Cheers
Yep, doing a one off would soon add up by the time you allow for setups!
Good work
Thank you! Cheers!
That is a Ward lathe, I have the same machine but never have gotten around to using it. Started a job as a CAM programmer for CNC machines and I must admit, as nice as these vintage machines are, there is very little need for them anymore. The precision and speed of CNC are really unmatched.
The world would be a better place without computers .ward & manual for the win . Nothing built by CNC will ever become a classic ,as every **** has one
What name lathe u use? Model lathe?
Cool
Crap...that brought back memories of my Apprenticeship at Simon Engineering, Stockport, UK (1969)
I spent best part of a year setting and operating a series of Ward capstan lathes.
By the way...spindle speed is a little fast for HSS dies.
Learning as I go on these! Still a few guys who ran them as apprentices around here but the setters are all long gone unfortunately so its trial and error but they definitely still have their place in the workshop even if its just running simple parts to take workload off the newer stuff. Noted on the speed for the dies (y)
why not buy a collet for the chuck on the jathe and use a tool in the turret to chamfer the ends this would cut your production time in half
Hi Roy,
Couple of good points! The correct collet was on order but hadn't arrived in time. We don't have a chamfer tool for the turret and couldn't use our normal chamfer tools in the tool post but yes it would definitely speed things up!
@@owensengineering286 i was a capstan setter owen and the jobs had to be turned out as fast as possible some were produced with two components on one cycle of the turret so stations 1/2/3/ were identical to 4/5/6/ so that the operator didnt waste time indexing the turret past 3 idle stations but its nice to see capstans still turning work out mate x
Helps when theres a fully equipped toolshop with appropriate box cutters and die holders, blah blah blah. Then theres the funky ones for doing the hexes n flats...
Most turrets/caps i see now are in scrapyards or delegated to some mediocre job like tap, chamfer, deburr.
Only seen one get used properly, sourced from a scrapyard, popping out screws every three seconds or so... darn sight faster than a cnc cycle of three minutes...
????? Name lathe?
Ward 2A
Safety gloves next video
@sergio Vasquez you don’t wear gloves because it’s a hazard. Will have more severe injuries when your hand gets pulled into the machine via gloves getting wrapped around the rotating machine parts.same thing with loose baggy clothes and long hair.
In this part of the world gloves are a big no when working with machine tools. Too easy to get caught and sucked into a machine. I do however appreciate the concern for my safety.
Safety glasses…nahh my eyes seen worse
slowest saw I have ever seen. Id loose my business running that in my shop.
If running a cold saw is the making or breaking of your business I'd suggest you'd need to take a serious look at your business 🤣
@@owensengineering286 The point was for production. I can cut 20 or so at a time to your one. In your case cold saw is not needed.
and yet you had time to watch the video and comment as well. we are so grateful for your valuable time.
@@RoyMeraki HAHA