CLASSIC Rewind -- Precision indication on a Lathe - DO NOT MISS THIS VIDEO !!

Joe Pie
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Published 2024-06-22
Originally posted many years ago, this video demonstrates and explains a very important step to achieve higher accuracy on your lathe. It shows the single most important detail about holding and indicating a part in your lathe for second side, pickup or repair operations. This is foundation material. DO NOT MISS THIS VIDEO.
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All Comments (21)
  • @paulsotheron710
    Hey Joe, I am not a skilled machinist, at best a hobby model engineer and try to watch all your videos and give them a thumbs up but I don’t always make a comment, which doesn’t mean I don’t find all your stuff great to watch and, who knows, some of it might even sink in, lol. Please keep motivated, I look forward to your videos. 👍
  • @micahatticus4257
    Its in small part becuase of you im a machinist now running proto trak mills and manual lathes thank you so much.
  • @wgm-en2gx
    Quick whiteboard trick: if you accidentally use a permanent marker on a dry erase board, try removing it by coloring over it with a dry erase marker. The solvent in the dry erase markers usually dissolves the permanent marker and amalgamates the other dry erase components into the permanent marker ink. This turns the permanent ink into a (poor) dry erase ink, and you can remove it. It might take a few iterations to get it all off.
  • @johnwolf5288
    You are a terrific teacher, Joe. It never hurts to review the basics to be sure everyone understands the simple stuff - because it is only simple if you understand. Thanks.
  • @TomokosEnterprize
    Great to have you showing the ignorant to think in 2 plane's. I like to look at these from above and a little bit back of the center of the part in question. That works for myself. Others may not see what I do. AS long as the end run we are square and level in 3 places it is bang on.
  • @JeffSearust
    These classic videos need to come with a hammer to bang on my head to remember… thanks for these!!!
  • @taranson3057
    I'm retired and took up this machining hobby a little over a year ago. I am actually happy that you showed how to perform these basic steps, it might be a refresher to others but to me, it is new information that I can use.
  • @raymitchell9736
    Hi Joe, I don't have any machining equipment, but I love your channel and content and the lessons you teach, very informational if one day I am doing this kind of work, or I am needing to align something. You instructed me very clearly that it's not sufficient to have one point dialed in, you need a minimum two. Lesson Learned and received. Thank you so much!
  • @koen8973
    My mom talks about that video where you clean that wolf spiders feet and I just told it to a friend of mine. Love your content.
  • @keithjones8070
    Hello Joe, I might be able to share a tip with you. If you write on the white board with a permanent marker, let it dry and then draw over it with a normal white board marker and it should rub off. Maybe try a little test of it in a corner of your white board. I would also like to indicate that I really enjoy learning from your videos, your explanation and demonstration is outstanding. Thank you, Keith - Western Australia.
  • @rogercalverley8187
    Picked up some great tips from you and recommended you to my workmates.
  • @gorak9000
    The one question I have about any kind of part indication on the mill or lathe is, if you can adjust the part by "tapping it in", what prevents it from moving once you get it in the right spot? I get that tapping is an impulse movement, vs cutting should be continual, but it seems to me if it moves if you tap it, it could move while it's being machined as well. Just an odd question from a beginner hobby wannabe machinist
  • @StuartsShed
    The quality of my turned parts took a quantum leap after I first saw this video. It really is a fundamental technique. Thanks Joe.
  • @noelhenderson7337
    I cut threads toward the chuck because my lathe has a threaded spindle. My lathe also has no provision for running in reverse. That can be done a number of different ways of course but I also don't have a problem threading toward the chuck because I simply pay attention to where the tool is.
  • @StoneAndersonStudio
    Love your page so much, thank you for all the knowledge you share. No pressure to respond to this either, but your knowledge you’ve shared has made my start in machining so much easier.