That was only the second video I made and had a lot to learn. I now have an improved microphone. It would be better if I bought a professional mic but I haven't had any support on Patreon to help pay for it. Don't forget to subscribe on RUclips anyway. Thanks.
By far the most helpful video I've come across. Thank you for making it. I've got a fairly mint Boxford VSL here in the UK but I'm relatively new to machining so this was very helpful. Cheers
Glad this video has the voice over. On your "Part 2 The Knobs and Levers on the Boxford lathe" video I couldn't make out what you were saying when you turned the lathe on.
Andy McKenzie is my 1000th subscriber. ManyTHANKS to you and all the people who have SUBSCRIBED! I feel that it is a big hurdle and I hope it means that RUclips will increase the traffic coming to my channel. I have some more material to make videos when I find the time.
Hello, I’m trying to clean up a tailstock like yours. After removing the wheel there is a piece shaped like a nut which is held to the casting with two grub screws. Once the two grub screws are removed how for you take that off?
I have not stripped my tailstock completely. I suggest you join the Boxford Users Group by clicking this: groups.io/g/BoxfordLathe-UserGroup and select subscribe. There has been a recent discussion about tail stocks. There is also a Boxford parts manual with drawings of the parts. There are a lot of very experienced people in this group and they will be able to answer your question.
Correction: I said the silver table on the front of the lead screw gear box tells you the pitch of a thread. That is not correct. As it says on the table itself, it is the feed rate when the lead screw is used to provide power feed, which drives the saddle along the bed using the clutch. There are gears in the saddle that reduce this speed. Note that the power feed rate for the cross-slide is 0.3 times the speed on this table (which is for longitudinal movement). The table is only correct if you have a 40 tooth stud gear in the gear train. Note that as you move the A to E lever the speed doubles with each step. If we are cutting threads we do not use the clutch knob, but rather the lever which engages a half-nut directly with the lead screw. This eliminates the reduction gear in the apron/saddle/carriage. When used this way you usually have to change gears in the gear train. Another table on the end of the lathe tells you what stud gears to use and what gearbox settings to use for all the standard metric threads.
That was only the second video I made and had a lot to learn. I now have an improved microphone. It would be better if I bought a professional mic but I haven't had any support on Patreon to help pay for it. Don't forget to subscribe on RUclips anyway. Thanks.
By far the most helpful video I've come across. Thank you for making it.
I've got a fairly mint Boxford VSL here in the UK but I'm relatively new to machining so this was very helpful.
Cheers
ANDY, Not only am I happy that you found the video helpful but I also want to say THANK YOU FOR BEING MY 1000th SUBSCRIBER!
@@Evan-e-cent Awesome. 👌
Glad this video has the voice over. On your "Part 2 The Knobs and Levers on the Boxford lathe" video I couldn't make out what you were saying when you turned the lathe on.
Andy McKenzie is my 1000th subscriber. ManyTHANKS to you and all the people who have SUBSCRIBED! I feel that it is a big hurdle and I hope it means that RUclips will increase the traffic coming to my channel. I have some more material to make videos when I find the time.
Tomorrow I'm going to check out one of these machines. So thanks for the video :)
Hello, I’m trying to clean up a tailstock like yours. After removing the wheel there is a piece shaped like a nut which is held to the casting with two grub screws. Once the two grub screws are removed how for you take that off?
I have not stripped my tailstock completely. I suggest you join the Boxford Users Group by clicking this: groups.io/g/BoxfordLathe-UserGroup and select subscribe. There has been a recent discussion about tail stocks. There is also a Boxford parts manual with drawings of the parts. There are a lot of very experienced people in this group and they will be able to answer your question.
@@Evan-e-cent thank you
Correction: I said the silver table on the front of the lead screw gear box tells you the pitch of a thread. That is not correct. As it says on the table itself, it is the feed rate when the lead screw is used to provide power feed, which drives the saddle along the bed using the clutch. There are gears in the saddle that reduce this speed. Note that the power feed rate for the cross-slide is 0.3 times the speed on this table (which is for longitudinal movement). The table is only correct if you have a 40 tooth stud gear in the gear train. Note that as you move the A to E lever the speed doubles with each step.
If we are cutting threads we do not use the clutch knob, but rather the lever which engages a half-nut directly with the lead screw. This eliminates the reduction gear in the apron/saddle/carriage. When used this way you usually have to change gears in the gear train. Another table on the end of the lathe tells you what stud gears to use and what gearbox settings to use for all the standard metric threads.