Steady Rest Build For Clausing Lathe
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Designing and building a large steady rest for our Clausing Colchester 13" metal lathe. I utilize the services of OSH Cut to laser cut steady rest pieces I designed. Hopefully I'll be able to hold the central shaft of our carnival ride in the lathe for machining and this won't be an elaborate and expensive paper weight. This steady rest requires no welding to build and minimal machining- mostly just a drill and some taps.
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Sometimes ya gotta make the tool before you can do the job. Looked around for somebody with a large enough lathe to machine the shaft from our carnival ride rebuild, then realized I was one accessory away from being able to do the job on my own lathe. Watch the entire project series here: ruclips.net/p/PL9JRE2uksm9tonX17TZt38K6RH2EnDNf1
I see a lot of machinists make something, then comment how they could have just bought one for half the price, but it looks like you saved yourself a lot of money on this project...
This video was excellent. Lots of hard work went into building the study rest and creating the video. As a fellow RUclipsr I see the work you put in and it shows.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it! I just wish my lathe looked like yours. Talk about a lot of hard work.
Nice work Pete, I like it. My only observation is how do you lock the fingers in place?
Well done! I gotta check out your channel more thoroughly it looks like you do some interesting stuff. I need to make a bigger steady myself, that's how I stumbled onto your channel! Great content and nice production work on the video! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Awesome..👍😁🤗 i will build somthing similar.
Hey, this is Caleb at OSH Cut! Thanks for the shout out. That box is a head scratcher for us - the label isn't one we print (we use adhesive labels, not printed paper), the tape doesn't match (we use brown industrial tape, not clear packing tape), and the box isn't one we stock and ship. I'd guess that what we shipped was somehow destroyed and UPS did a reprint and put the parts in the new box.
But I'm glad the parts worked out in spite of the issue!
Well that is certainly an interesting turn of events. Given that, I'm surprised the package was only delayed by 1 day. I appreciate the quality. Knowing what I now know, I would have had most of the holes laser cut to final size and only undersized the ones that needed to be tapped. Thanks for watching!
Hey Pete, just a suggestion but have you thought about buying a semi inexpensive 3D FDM printer for mock up? I think it would have a nice impact on your ability to verify and prove designs before spending the big bucks on finish parts
Your grandson helping at every step is just adorable! He even responds "I'm good" when you ask your son-in-law while carrying in the part. 🤣
That cracked us up.. like ok buddy, we weren't really talking to you, but ok 😂
Awesome project, I need to do the same. The steady for my lathe (14x40) will only hold a 4 inch part. - I'd be careful with the laser cut edges on your ways - that stuff is hard as diamonds.
nice work mate!!! seems to me that it would've been easier to just buy an OEM SR but easier isn't always better and you wouldn't have learned everything you did and improved your skills by following your process, and that is invaluable. It's an awesome result and a beautiful tool, so props to you!!! thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks! I would have considered the OEM version but now that I could finally justify the purchase, I couldn't find one for sale. But in the end I'm glad it worked out like it did. This has a larger capacity than the OEM and I think it just looks cool. Thanks for stopping by!
Beautiful work. I am not a metalworker by profession, but I really liked your work and followed it with real interest, Sincere congratulations!!
Thank you very much!
That is some fantastic work. Long way from my pounding bolts through wood.
LOL. you are too kind Gene. Your bolt pounding videos are very popular! ;-) Thanks for watching!
After your labor and $450 for oshcut- Wouldn't it be more effective to purchase one for $750?
You can’t purchase one this large anywhere for any price
when its not being used as a steady rest, local kids can use it as a rubiks cube (-=
awesome work , it looks amazing.. Ive outsourced quite a few cnc projects and its super stressful.. I end up checking the drawing 100 times for different specs before hitting send..
While watching , i thought about the cheapest way to make this with limited tooling .. My intial thought was 3d printing the steady as 2 pieces , then casting it in aluminum, but even that would be 400 or so to set up
It was a bit stressful.. kind of an all or nothing proposition. Because of the way I set the drawing up, I had to export the drawings from 3d into individual 2d files manually and that is where I worried about a mistake. I finally convinced myself worse case scenario, I could take it into work and have pieces welded on or cut off if anything was messed up. I actually considered casting it but once I discovered OSH Cut I went full steam ahead in that direction. Thanks so much for watching!
DANG PETE! That was a LOT of work but it looks great! I made one that works okay but in hindsight I should have made it different. It on my list to make a new one but I doubt it will be as nice as yours. Very impressive. Also, I feel the same about welding. I'm getting better but I'm still in the armature category. Also with welding you always have to account for distortion. Great work!
Thanks Winky!
I've thought about building a steady rest like this. Do you think you could bring the cost down by replacing a lot of the plates with tubing in the middle everywhere a bolt goes through?
Yeah, I could see that working, but I would probably go with bigger bolts to help keep the outside plates from shifting relative to each other. Thanks for watching!
Fantastic, I learned a lot from this! Just not a technique I would have thought of. Things seem to come to us when need them too.
Glad to hear that! Everything on that project just sorta fell into place and I've been really happy with the results, it works really well. (although it could stand to have some better bearings- these were cheap amazon bearings and one developed a knock)
Love it. I’ve used both OshCut and SendCutSend for laser cut parts and they’re both great for prototype parts like this.
Thanks Tom! Yes, I was very impressed with the results. We have a local company that does laser cutting for us here- very simple stuff. For some reason everything we send them, they have to redraw so their system can use it. I wasn't going to trust them to redraw all these parts.
Awesome content, been watching for awhile nice to tag along on your projects. I learned alot from your CNC controller build/rebuild. Thanks for sharing exceptional job.
Awesome, thank you! Hope you continue to find value or at least entertainment here!
I am soooo interested on your new adventure with this project….. I stay glued to your page on RUclips. Hope to see more soon . 👍🏻
Thank you so much! I appreciate that!
Nice work. Sometimes you have to weigh the difference in price to have the parts cut, and number of times that you would actually use a cnc plasma table as well as
the space the machine would take up. I have a newer Clausing Colchester 13" lathe and the price that I was quoted for a steady rest was $2800, nope, not going to happen.
Great point! That is one of the biggest issues- space- I have zero room for a cnc plasma. I had no idea new steady rests cost that much. As this is an older machine I just follow what I see listed on bay, and in this case the availability has been sparse lately.
@@PeteRondeau Mine was built in 1972, but steady rests and followers seem to be none existent.
Very nice work
Thank you very much !
This is an incredible build. Would you be willing to share the design on grabcad or similar? I have a 15" LeBlond I would like to build a steady rest for. Thank you and new sub.
Thank you so much. I don't have time to do that right now but it may happen in the future. It is going to be very lathe dependent though, adjusting the center height and matching the style of bed-ways.
Dang…what a great steady rest!
Very good 👍
Thank you I appreciate it!
Awesome job ! I'm gonna build me one on smaller scale but like yours !
Good luck! let me know how you make out!
very nice job on it.. have you thought about selling the DXF files so otherers can can build one? I have the 15inch Colchester , and looking at making one for it. I have a cnc plasma table .. I know my center height and bed is prob different.
I have not up until this point. I wasn't sure there would be that much demand for it. This video itself didn't generate the amount of views I thought it might so that makes me really question if there is any interest. I know in its time this was a very popular lathe and they are all over the place so it makes me wonder.
@@PeteRondeau ok thanks. I'd be open to modifying your file to fit my 15" lathe. I have Autocad 17LT
@@PeteRondeau I would love to get some cad files for your steady design I plan to make a smaller version for my Emco Maximat 11, would you mind to share?
@@PeteRondeau I also would love to have a look at the CAD to see what I could adapt for my Clausing 5937.
great work!
Thanks so much!
@@PeteRondeau no probs, dad has a small lathe about 3' between centers, i do have access to bigger machines but i dont want to pester my friends with my projects, so this type of build suits me to the ground, thanks for the idea.